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Isaac Hayes Innovative Singer, Composer Changed Pop Music
Los Angeles Times Indepth Obituary Isaac Hayes, the musician, composer and producer whose innovative sound changed the shape of pop music and whose shaved head, bejeweled outfits and regal demeanor embodied African American masculinity in the 1970s, has died. He was 65. Family members found Hayes unresponsive Sunday afternoon next to a treadmill in ...
Isaac Hayes, Deep-Voiced Soul Icon, is Dead at 65
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP)--Isaac Hayes, the pioneering singer, songwriter and musician whose relentless “Theme From Shaft" won Academy and Grammy awards, died Sunday afternoon, the Shelby County Sheriff's Office said. He was 65. A family member found him unresponsive near a treadmill and he was pronounced dead an hour later at Baptist East Hospital in Memphis, according ...
Singer Isaac Hayes Dead at 65
Soul singer and arranger Isaac Hayes, who won Grammy awards and an Oscar for the theme from the 1971 action film Shaft has died, sheriff's officials in Memphis, Tennessee, reported Sunday. Singer Issac Hayes seen performing in the U.K. last year. Hayes was found dead Sunday at age 65. Relatives found Hayes, 65, unconscious in his ...
Jazz Drummer, Singer Lee Young Dies at 94
Lee Young, who emerged from a family with musical roots deep in New Orleans jazz, drummed for greats like Ellington and Basie, became a pioneering black man in music's executive suites -- and survived his musician brother, Lester, by a half-century -- died on July 31 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 94. The ...
Actor and Comedian Bernie Mac Dies at Age 50
Bernie Mac, the actor and comedian who teamed up in the casino heist caper “Ocean's Eleven" and gained a prestigious Peabody Award for his sitcom “The Bernie Mac Show," died Saturday at age 50. “Actor/comedian Bernie Mac passed away this morning from complications due to pneumonia in a Chicago area hospital," his publicist, Danica Smith, said ...
Erik Darling Dies Musician in the Weavers
A virtuoso guitarist and banjo player, Erik Darling performed with two of the leading folk groups of the day, the Tarriers and the Weavers, which he joined after Mr. Seeger left in 1958. Darling, a preppy Ayn Rand devotee who replaced Pete Seeger in the Weavers and who was associated with two of folk music's biggest ...
Norman Dello Joio Pulitzer and Emmy Award-Winning Composer
Norman Dello Joio, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer with a lyrical style who wrote works for orchestra and chorus as well as several operas and an Emmy Award-winning television score, He died July 24 at his home in East Hampton, N.Y. of natural causes, according to his son Justin Dello Joio, who also is a composer. He ...
Hollywood Player Bernie Brillstein Dies at 77
Bernie Brillstein, a Hollywood talent agent, manager, producer and studio head who over half a century guided the careers of “Saturday Night Live" comedians and helped package a slew of TV and movie hits, has died. He was 77. Brillstein died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Thursday night at a Los Angeles hospital, according to information ...
Nicola Rescigno, Helped Found Opera Companies in Chicago and Dallas Dies
Nicola Rescigno, a conductor who seized advantage of a new interest in opera after World War II and helped found two major American opera companies, died on Monday in Viterbo, Italy. He was 92. He died in a hospital awaiting surgery after falling and breaking his femur about a week ago, Jeanne Rescigno, wife of the ...
Lou Teicher Half of Ferrante & Teicher Piano Duo
Lou Teicher, half of the popular Ferrante & Teicher piano duo that had top-10 hits in the 1960s with lushly orchestrated movie-theme singles, has died. He was 83. Teicher, a longtime resident of Sarasota, Fla., died unexpectedly of heart failure Sunday at his summer home in Highlands, N.C., said Scott W. Smith, Teicher and Arthur Ferrante's ...
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