Isaac Hayes Dead At Age 65

A NOTE TO ALL MY BROTHERS OUT THERE: Please... I'm begging! You guys have got to start taking better care of yourselves and going to see your doctors on the regular. We are losing you at an alarming rate and we have got to slow this down!

Isaac Hayes, the pioneering singer, songwriter and musician whose relentless "Theme From Shaft" won Academy and Grammy awards, died Sunday afternoon, the Shelby County Sheriff's Office said. He was 65. A family member found him unresponsive near a treadmill and he was pronounced dead an hour later at Baptist East Hospital in Memphis, according to the sheriff's office. The cause of death was not immediately known.