Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the year-long series Sounds Of Blaxploitation, Craig D. Lindsey plays the hits that defined a genre, drawing connections ...

Grammy-winning musician Isaac Hayes, pictured here around 1970, died in Tennessee on August 10 at 65Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images Isaac Hayes packed a lot of achievement into his 65-year life, ...

With its riveting orchestration, definitive guitar playing and signature sensual baritone vocals, Isaac Hayes' theme song for the 1971 movie "Shaft" not only became one of pop music's iconic songs but ...

He was 65. View photos from Hayes' career » With its riveting orchestration, definitive guitar play and signature sensual baritone vocals, Isaac Hayes' theme song for the 1971 movie "Shaft" not only ...

Isaac Hayes, 65, the Oscar-winning soul singer and songwriter whose swaggering "Theme From Shaft" became a signature sound of the 1970s, died Aug. 10 at his home outside Memphis. Steve Shular, a ...

“Shaft” toes the line between film score and soundtrack, which is sort of the point. The movie’s opening track is undisputedly iconic. But the rest of Hayes’ score is equally effecting in its blend of ...