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Jamie Foxx live at the Jimmy Kimmel Show Performing all his favorite songs. ” Blame it on the… ayyyeee!!!”
Foxx was born as Eric Marlon Bishop on December 13, 1967, in Terrell, Texas. He is the son of Louise Annette Talley Dixon and Shaheed Abdulah. Foxx was abandoned seven months after birth, and was subsequently adopted and raised in Terrell by his mother’s adoptive parents. Terrell was a racially segregated community at the time. Foxx had a strict Baptist upbringing and began piano lessons at the age of five by his grandmother’s orders. As a teenager, he was a part-time pianist and choir leader in Terrell’s New Hope Baptist Church.
Foxx attended Terrell High School, where he received top grades, played basketball and football as quarterback, and had an ambition to play for the Dallas Cowboys. He was the first player in the school’s history to pass for more than 1,000 yards. He also sang in a band called Leather and Lace. After completing high school, Foxx received a scholarship to United States International University, where he studied classical music and composition. He has often acknowledged his grandmother’s influence in his life as one of the greatest reasons for his success.
1989-1994: Stand-up career, acting debut, Peep This and legal issue
After accepting a girlfriend’s dare, Foxx told jokes and ffat a comedy club’s open mic night in 1989. When he found that comediennes were often called first to perform, he changed his name to Jamie Foxx, feeling that it was an ambiguous enough name to disallow any biases.He chose his surname as a tribute to comedian Redd Foxx. In addition his recurrent In Living Color character LaWanda shared names with Redd’s friend and co-worker, LaWanda Page.
Foxx joined the cast of In Living Color in 1991 and subsequently played a recurring role in the comedy-drama sitcom Roc. From 1996 to 2001, Foxx starred in his own sitcom The Jamie Foxx Show, and made his film debut in the 1992 comedy Toys. His first dramatic role came in Oliver Stone’s 1999 film Any Given Sunday, where he portrayed a hard-partying American football player.[4] He was cast in the role in part because of his background as a football player. Following Any Given Sunday, Foxx was featured as taxi driver Max Durocher in the film Collateral alongside Tom Cruise, for which he received outstanding reviews and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Foxx began piano lessons at age five. In 1994, Foxx released an album (on the Fox record label) entitled Peep This.
In April 2003, Foxx was involved in an incident with two police officers who were attempting to escort him and his sister out of Harrah’s casino in New Orleans. Employees claimed they had failed to show identification upon entry. Originally charged with trespassing, disturbing the peace, battery on police officers and resisting arrest, Foxx pleaded no contest to disturbing the peace in exchange for the other charges being dropped, and was sentenced to a six month suspended jail term with two years probation and a $1,500 fine.
2004-2006: Ray, Collateral and Unpredictable
Foxx and Kanye West performing “Gold Digger”
His music career shifted into a higher gear when, in 2004, he was featured on rapper Twista’s song, “Slow Jamz”, which also featured Kanye West. The song reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, as well as number three on the UK singles chart. Foxx’s second collaboration with Kanye West, “Gold Digger,” in which he sang the “I Got a Woman” Ray Charles-influenced hook, went straight to number one on the Billboard Hot 100, and remained there for 10 weeks. In 2005, Foxx was featured on the single “Georgia” by Atlanta rappers Ludacris and Field Mob. The song sampled Ray Charles’ hit “Georgia on My Mind.” He also had a beginning verse on Kanye’s “Gold Digger”
His standout performance, however, was his portrayal of Ray Charles in the biopic Ray (2004) for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor