10 Great Musicians That Are Slowly Being Forgotten

3. Isaac Hayes

Forget the whole Scientologist thing for a moment and everything else that may have punctuated­­ his career, Isaac Hayes was a great musician. This is the man who gave the world Shaft for goodness sake, you know Shaft, the sex machine to all the chicks. The man who€™d risk his neck for his brother man. Even in the world of soul music, Hayes was just the coolest cat you ever did see. But that voice though, one of the most booming baritones of all time, it was as if his vocal chords had been lathered in treacle. Isaac Hayes could give Barry White a run for his money from Monday to Sunday with his laid-back, creamy soul music with those classically styled bass lines and running high hats that ticked away in the background like a stylish pocket watch. Truly phenomenal soul music that is now largely ignored. The problem with Isaac Hayes is that most people don€™t remember him as a musician. He€™s either Chef from South Park or he€™s that Scientologist who quit South Park amidst a sea of religious controversy. All of this overshadows his exploits as one of the kingpins of soul music in the seventies and it seems that following his death in 2008, people will only remember him as that sexually charged, chocolate ball singing Scientologist from a controversial cartoon; rather than one of the great male voices to come out of the Deep South in twentieth century.