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Samuel L. Jackson on Bernie Mac in Soul Men: "He was just out there doing his thing"
Underpinning Soul Men's high-energy hilarity is an unmistakable theme of mortality - a strange coincidence following the unexpected deaths of two costars, Bernie Mac and Isaac Hayes.
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Isaac Hayes found dead at 65
Another day and some more very sad news, famous soul musician Isaac Hayes, who played the voice of Chef on the hit Comedy Central series "South Park" has passed away today August 10th at age 65 in Shelby County, Tennesee. Read More
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Alongside his work in popular music, Hayes is a film score composer for motion pictures. His best known work, for the 1971 blaxploitation film Shaft, earned Hayes an Academy Award for Best Original Song (the first Academy Award received by an African-American in a non-acting category) and two Grammy Awards. Hayes received a third Grammy for the album Black Moses.
In 1992, in recognition of Hayes' humanitarian work, he was crowned an honorary king of Ghana's Ada district. From 1997 to 2006, he provided the voice for the character "Chef" on the Comedy Central animated TV series South Park.
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Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr. (born August 20, 1942) is an American soul and funk singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, arranger, composer and actor. Hayes was one of the main creative forces behind southern soul music label Stax Records, for which he served as both an in-house songwriter/producer with partner David Porter durign the mid-1960s. In the late 1960s, Hayes became a recording artist, and recorded successful soul albums such as Hot Buttered Soul (1969) and Black Moses (1971) as the Stax label's premier artist.
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