Jamie Foxx (born Eric Marlon Bishop; December 13, 1967) is an Academy Award-winning American actor, singer, musician and stand-up comedian. Foxx is best known for his portrayal of musician Ray Charles in Ray. With Ray, he became the third African American to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. Foxx received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on September 14, 2007.
Foxx began piano lessons at age three, and later took classical piano lessons while attending the Julliard School of Music. In 1994, Foxx released an album (on the FOX record label) entitled Peep This. In 2001, he hosted the MTV Video Music Awards.
His music career went into a higher gear when, in 2004, he was featured on rapper Kanye West's song, "Slow Jamz", which also featured Twista. The song reached number one on the US 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 1 on the Billboard Top 100, and remained there for 10 weeks. In 2005, Foxx was featured on the hit single "Georgia" by Atlanta rappers Ludacris and Field Mob. The song sampled Ray Charles' hit "Georgia on My Mind". Unpredictable is Jamie Foxx's second studio release. It sold over 598,000 copies in its first week but reached the U.S. number one spot in its 2nd week.
Debuting at number two, Unpredictable rose to the top of the Billboard pop album chart, with 2nd-week sales of 200,000 copies in the United States. The album also charted in the UK top 10 album chart, peaking at number nine. It has since been certified Platinum. Foxx became the fourth artist to have won an Academy Award for acting and to have achieved a number-one record album in the US. (The other three to accomplish this feat were Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, and Barbra Streisand.) Foxx's first single from the album, the title track, "Unpredictable" (featuring Ludacris) samples "WildFlower" by New Birth. The song peaked inside the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 and also made the UK top 20 singles chart. The second US single from the album was "DJ Play A Love Song", which reunited Foxx with Twista. In the UK, however, the second single was "Extravaganza", which saw Foxx once again collaborate with Kanye West. He was not, however, featured in the song's music video.
At the 2006 BET Awards, Foxx won two awards: Best Duet/Collaboration with Kanye West for "Gold Digger" and Video of the Year for the same video. Kanye's video tied with Mary J. Blige's (Be Without You) for Video of the year. On December 8, 2006, Foxx received a 4 Grammy nominations:
Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals for Love Changes feat Mary J. Blige.
Best R&B Album for Unpredictable.
Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for Georgia by Ludacris & Field Mob feat Jamie Foxx.
Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for Unpredictable feat Ludacris.
On January 22, 2007, Foxx was on Sirius Satellite Radio, announcing his new "Foxxhole" channel. This channel now features comedy and music by Jamie but also music and comedy by those Jamie respects most.
Foxx recorded a song with country superstars Rascal Flatts entitled "She Goes All The Way" for their album, "Still Feels Good".
Foxx also does background vocals for artist/songwriter Tank. He and The-Dream are featured on Plies' (rapper) "Please Excuse My Hands"
He is featured in a remix version of "Miss Independent" entitled "She Got Her Own" alongside Fabolous and Ne-Yo from his third album, Year of the Gentleman.
Jamie Foxx collaborated with rapper The Game on the song "Around The World".
At present he is recording his third studio album. Several songs have leaked on to the internet including, "Just Like Me" featuring T.I., "Number One" featuring Lil Wayne and "Nothin' From Ya" produced by Timbaland and Jim Beanz.
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