This Close Up special profiles the singer and actor whose Oscar-winning music for Shaft captured the social, sexual and racial revolutions that were sweeping America in the early seventies. Candid interviews with Hayes, and contributions from colleagues and friends, paint a portrait of one of soul music's most enduring icons. See Choice.
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Music: Isaac Hayes: Soul Man 10.40pm BBC2
Can you dig it? Isaac Hayes, who created the Shaft soundtrack, has a new generation of fans who know him as the voice (and model) for Chef in South Park. But as this entertaining profile underlines, their parents remember him as a bald-headed, bearded, Moses of African-American music. Beginning in the cottonfields of Tennessee, Hayes takes us on the long road from his poverty-stricken childhood in the forties through his songwriting (for Sam and Dave among others) to his involvement in the civil-rights movement and, later, black pride. For anyone who loves the music, it's a fascinating story, illuminated by Hayes's own views and those of contributors including James Brown, Dionne Warwick and Puff Daddy.
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