Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr., 1942 – 2008
The Black Moses Has Left the Building. The self proclaimed "health fanatic" dropped dead next to his treadmill yesterday. He'd recently become a father for the 12th time.
I saw him live at the Silverlake Music Festival about five years ago in LA and let me tell you this man's physical and spiritual presence was huuuuge. One really has to earn the right to sport a king like caftan post 1978. Through physical presence or innate bad-ass-ness he had that in spades. His aura was 100% "worship my legend and let me take you on a retro ride." This was so many years after his commercial prime and he was still a formidable live act. He was unbelievably tall and probably had a wingspan of about six feet (literally) as he spread his arms to summon his creative juices and the crowd. I also liked him on South Park even if he renounced it. Pretty cool that he walked away from that paycheck. It says a lot about him, doesn't it?
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