Hayes made history as the first Black winner of best original song for the Gordon Park film — as well as the first Black winner in any Oscar category outside of acting.
.” Davis was making history that night as the ceremony’s first Black host . But before the night was over, Isaac Hayes too would make history as the first Black winner of best original song — as well as the first Black winner in any Oscar category outside of acting.The Hollywood Reporter
Hayes was a songwriter, producer and recording artist at Memphis-based Stax Records when he was approached about writing the score for Gordon Parks’, a blaxploitation film about private detective John Shaft. Upon seeing some early footage of Shaft coming out of a subway, Hayes was immediately inspired, as he told Britain’smagazine: “I remembered a guitar line I had in a tune I’d never used, got it off the shelf and had our guitarist play it exactly the same, but with a wah-wah.
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