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- Early Life
- Career
- Health Problems and Death
- Personal Life
- Discography
- Collaborations
- Bibliography
Isaac Lee Hayes Jr. was born in Covington, Tennessee, the second child of Eula (née Wade) and Isaac Hayes Sr. After his mother died young and his father abandoned his family, Hayes was raised by his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Willie Wade Sr. The child of a sharecropper family, Hayes grew up working on farms in the Tennessee counties of She...
1963–1974: Stax Records and Shaft
Hayes began his recording career in the early 1960s, as a session musician for acts recorded by the Memphis-based Stax Records. He later wrote a string of hit songs with songwriting partner David Porter, including "You Don't Know Like I Know", "Soul Man", "When Something Is Wrong with My Baby" and "Hold On, I'm Comin'" for Sam & Dave. Hayes, Porter and Stax studio band Booker T. & the M.G.'swere also the producers for Sam & Dave, Carla Thomas and other Stax artists during the mid-1960s. One o...
1974–1977: HBS, basketball team ownership, and bankruptcy
By 1974, Stax Records was having serious financial problems, stemming from problems with overextension and limited record sales and distribution.[citation needed] Hayes himself was deep in debt to Union Planters Bank, which administered loans for the Stax label and many of its other key employees. In September of that year, Hayes sued Stax for $5.3 million. As Stax was in deep debt and could not pay, the label made an arrangement with Hayes and Union Planters: Stax released Hayes from his rec...
1977–1995: Polydor, hiatus, and film work
In 1977, Hayes was back with a new deal with Polydor Records, a live album of duets with Dionne Warwick did moderately well, and his comeback studio album New Horizon sold better and enjoyed a hit single "Out The Ghetto", and also featured the popular "It's Heaven To Me". 1978's For the Sake of Love saw Hayes record a sequel to "Theme from Shaft" ("Shaft II"), but was best known for the single "Zeke The Freak", a song that would have a shelf life of decades and be a major part of the House mo...
On March 20, 2006, Roger Friedman of Fox News reported that Hayes had suffered a minor stroke in January. Hayes's spokeswoman, Amy Harnell, denied this,but on October 26, 2006, Hayes confirmed he had suffered a stroke. On August 10, 2008, ten days before his 66th birthday, Hayes was found unresponsive in his home, just east of Memphis, as reported ...
Family
Hayes had 11 children, 14 grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. His first marriage was to Dancy Hayes in 1960 and ended in divorce. His second marriage was to Emily Ruth Watson on November 24, 1965, which ended in divorce in 1972. Children from this marriage included Vincent Eric Hayes, Melanie Mia Hayes, and Nicole A. Hayes (Murrell). He married bank teller[citation needed]Mignon Harley on April 18, 1973, and they divorced in 1986; they had two children.Hayes and his wife were eventu...
Scientology
Hayes took his first Scientology course in 1993, later contributing endorsement blurbs for many Scientology books over the ensuing years.In 1996, Hayes began hosting The Isaac Hayes and Friends Radio Show on WRKS in New York City. While there, Hayes became a client of the vegan raw food chef Elijah Joy and his company Organic Soul Inc. Hayes also appears in the Scientology film Orientation. In 1998, Hayes and fellow Scientologist entertainers Anne Archer, Chick Corea and Haywood Nelson attend...
Charitable work
The Isaac Hayes Foundation was founded in 1999 by Hayes. In February 2006, Hayes appeared in a Youth for Human Rights International music video called "United". YHRI is a human rights group founded by the Church of Scientology-backed non-profit United for Human Rights. He was also involved in other human rights related groups such as the One Campaign.Isaac Hayes was crowned a chief in Ghana for his humanitarian work and economic efforts on the country's behalf.
With Otis Redding 1. Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul(Stax Records, 1965) 2. The Soul Album(Stax Records, 1966) 3. Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul(Stax Records, 1966) 4. King & Queen(Stax Records, 1967) 5. The Dock of the Bay(Stax Records, 1968) With Wilson Pickett 1. The Exciting Wilson Pickett(Atlantic Records, 1966...
Bowman, Rob (1997). Soulsville U.S.A.: The Story of Stax Records. New York: Schirmer Trade. ISBN 978-0-8256-7284-2. OCLC 36824884. Google Books.
Explore the complete discography of Isaac Hayes, a soul, funk, and film score artist. Find his albums, songs, ratings, reviews, and more on Rate Your Music.
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