Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr1971
Composes for blaxploitation film Shaft, earns Hayes an Academy Award for Best Original Song (the first Academy Award received by an African-American in a non-acting category) and two Grammy Awards
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Composes for blaxploitation film Shaft, earns Hayes an Academy Award for Best Original Song (the first Academy Award received by an African-American in a non-acting category) and two Grammy Awards
Wins the 1973 best album grammy for, "Innervisions"
BB King is awarded a Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement
Receives a third Grammy for the album "Black Moses"
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