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Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr. (August 20, 1942 August 10, 2008) 1 was an American singersongwriter, actor, and musician. Hayes was one of the main creative forces behind southern soul music label Stax Records, where he served as both an inhouse songwriter and producer with partner David Porter during the mid1960s. Alongside, Bill Withers, the Sherman Brothers, Steve Cropper and John Fogerty, Hayes Porter were named to the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2005 in recognition of their string of successful hit songs for Sam Dave, Carla Thomas and others In the late 1960s. Their hit song Soul Man by Sam Dave has been recognized as one of the best or most influential songs of the past 50 years by the Grammy Hall of Fame, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Rolling Stone magazine, and the RIAA Songs of the Century. In the late 1960s, Hayes became a recording artist, and recorded successful soul albums such as Hot Buttered Soul (1969) and Black Moses (1971) as the Stax label s premie