LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Oscar-winning soul singer Isaac Hayes who, along with Al Green, James Brown and Stevie Wonder, was one of the dominant black artists in the early 1970s, died in Memphis on Sunday, his friend and former manager, Onzie Horne, said. Hayes was 65.
Horne told Reuters that he had spoken to Hayes’ wife, who confirmed that Hayes was found unconscious at his home, and rushed to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Hayes, a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, would have turned 66 on August 20.
Guy had a voice that made Barry White sound like a new castratti. Add to that the guy WAS Stax records in it’s heyday, and we have a real loss.
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