Date 24/02/2016 - News People
The late singer-songwriter, who won best original song for 1971's "Theme From Shaft," took his grandmother ? who mostly raised him ? to the ceremony and kept the statuette at her house until she died. This story first appeared in the March 4 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe. When Hayes performed his Oscar-nominated song "Theme From Shaft" on a smoke-filled stage at the 1972 Academy Awards, the Hollywood establishment didn't know what to make of the bald, bare-chested dude in dark shades and a gold chainmail vest surrounded by dancers in Afros and white bell-bottoms.
