[Infowarrior] - RIP, Isaac "Chef" Hayes

[Richard Forno]

Isaac Hayes, Deep-Voiced Soul Icon, Is Dead at 65
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 4:28 p.m. ET

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Isaac Hayes, the pioneering singer, songwriter  
and musician whose relentless ''Theme From Shaft'' won Academy and  
Grammy awards, has been found dead at home. He was 65.

The Shelby County Sheriff's Office says a family member found Hayes  
unresponsive near a treadmill on Sunday. He was pronounced dead about  
an hour later at Baptist East Hospital in Memphis. The cause of death  
was not immediately known.

In the early 1970s, Hayes laid the groundwork for disco, for what  
became known as urban-contemporary music and for romantic crooners  
like Barry White. And he was rapping before there was rap.

His career hit another high in 1997 when he became the voice of Chef,  
the sensible school cook and devoted ladies man on the animated TV  
show ''South Park.''

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Obit-Isaac-Hayes.html?hp=&pagewanted=print