HAYES, ISAAC

HAYES, ISAAC. Rhythm n blues singer (20 August 1942 in Covington, Tennessee). His grandparents, with whom he lived, moved to Memphis, Tennessee, when he was a child, and it was there that he obtained his musical education in the public schools. He taught himself to play musical instruments well enough to play in his junior-high-school band. Even before he graduated from high school he began singing and playing piano in local nightclubs. Later he played saxophone with local groups,...