{"id":1325,"date":"2014-07-05T22:39:15","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T22:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dclmusicians.org\/?p=1325"},"modified":"2017-08-08T13:42:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T13:42:23","slug":"irv-scacy-haywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dclmusicians.org\/?p=1325","title":{"rendered":"Irv Haywood"},"content":{"rendered":"

Article from Gassett.net<\/span><\/p>\n

Glenarden resident Irving Haywood said he has had a number of professions over the years \u2014 auto repairman, photographer and maker of decorative tobacco pipes. After a successful surgery gave him a new lease on life, he decided to return to his first passion: music.
\n\u201cIt just didn\u2019t seem to click,\u201d Haywood said of his fledgling music career in the 1960s and 1970s. \u201cI couldn\u2019t get a break. So I stayed away from it until a couple years ago.\u201d
\nHaywood, who is in his 60s but declined to give his exact age, said that after having open-heart surgery in 2011, he was inspired to return to singing.
\nIn his first formal performances since the early 1970s, he won the seventh annual statewide Maryland Senior Idol, an iteration of the \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d singing competition. The competition, hosted by the Prince George\u2019s Department of Parks and Recreation, is for people older than 60. It was held at the Bowie Center for the Performing Arts on April 3.
\n\u201cI just had a spiritual experience,\u201d he said. \u201cI said to myself, what in my life did I really enjoy doing? It was about getting back into what I really love.\u201d
\nHaywood, who served on the Glenarden City Council from 2007 though 2011, said he was in a number of singing groups in the Washington, D.C., area, starting in junior high school. But in the late 1960s, he formed Scacy and the Sound Service, an early funk and go-go band that he said grew to be the local opening act for funk band War and singer Stevie Wonder.
\n\u201cI was named for my uncle, who was missing in action [in World War II],\u201d Haywood said. \u201cI asked my family if they had any nicknames for him, and they said \u2018Scacy.\u2019 I thought that was pretty catchy.\u201d
\nHarry Young said he was the manager for Scacy and the Sound Service in the early 1970s and has remained close friends with Haywood. He said he has always encouraged Haywood to return to music, so he was \u201creally excited\u201d to see him perform at the competition.
\n\u201cI think I cried when he left the business, because he was such a talented guy,\u201d Young said. \u201c… It was incredible to hear him sing again. It\u2019s something I had been waiting and hoping for for many years.\u201d
\nCity Councilwoman Elaine A. Carter (Ward 2) said that although she had served with Haywood on the council, she had no idea about his talents until he was goaded into singing at a city function a few years ago.
\n\u201cHe\u2019s not the kind of man that goes around tooting his own horn,\u201d Carter said. \u201cI just had no idea until the occasion arose when someone asked him to sing. It was like, \u2018Whoa, is that the councilman that I know?\u2019\u201d
\nHaywood said he is ordinarily a soft-spoken man, but being on stage, singing Sam Cooke\u2019s \u201cA Change Is Gonna Come,\u201d at the Bowie Center for the Performing Arts, brought him right back to his youth.
\n\u201cIt was really uplifting, and the crowd was so responsive,\u201d Haywood said. \u201c… When I sing, I become another person, really. I just get really into what I\u2019m doing.\u201d
\nHaywood said his prize for winning was a glass trophy of a microphone and around $400 in gift cards. And he said the competition could spark some new singing opportunities for him.
\n\u201cMaybe I\u2019ll get some wedding gigs,\u201d Haywood said with a laugh
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Article from Gassett.net Glenarden resident Irving Haywood said he has had a number of professions over the years \u2014 auto repairman, photographer and maker of decorative tobacco pipes. After a successful surgery gave him a new lease on life, he decided to return to his first passion: music. \u201cIt just didn\u2019t seem to click,\u201d Haywood […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vocalist-vocalist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dclmusicians.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dclmusicians.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dclmusicians.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dclmusicians.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dclmusicians.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1325"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dclmusicians.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2973,"href":"https:\/\/dclmusicians.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions\/2973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dclmusicians.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dclmusicians.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dclmusicians.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dclmusicians.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}