Now, enough of Katie Holmes; let’s focus on the
man-of-the-moment Jamie Foxx. Jamie Foxx
who was born as Eric Marlon Bishop, is an American actor, singer, comedian,
writer, and producer and many more. I guess a lot of people would be wondering
why I’m writing on him today. And my bold response would be ‘who wouldn’t want to write about Jamie Foxx
any day’?
If you ask me again, I would say he’s a real ‘Hollywood story’. Who would have thought
this 47 year old ‘master of everything’ would turn out this way many years ago?
God bless the star, moon, sun or whatever that witnessed the day he was born.
It sure must have been a lucky star, moon and again whatever.
Interestingly,
I was never a fan while he was on
that movie with Vivica Fox (someone please remind me the name of that
movie again), aha! Booty Call!! And then onto his Jamie Foxx
sitcom/show, I still wasn’t a fan of
his for I thought he wasn’t really funny until 2004 when he starred as
Ray
Charles in the biographical film Ray which earned him the Academy and
BAFTA Awards for best actor as well as a Golden Globe Award also for Best Actor
in a musical comedy. Wow! That was the year I fell in love with his acts. It
was whoop! Whoop!! Whoop!!! All the way for Jamie for in that same year, he got
nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the
action film Collateral and even though he didn’t win that, it still has
been a story filled with successful points.
His outing in the still-talked-about movie Django
Unchained which was released in 2012 blew me away and while I was still trying to get outta the
wind of Django Unchained, I got
sucked-up again into this amazing
character when I saw what he did with his role as William Stacks in yet another
great movie ‘Annie’ the 2014 version. His roles in other movies such as Electro
in The Amazing Spider Man leave you
with that longing-for-more feeling. I had to go search for his sitcom The Jamie
Foxx show to watch all over again just in case I missed out something which
didn’t make him appear funny or talented to me at the initial stage of his career. 
My admiration for him grew when I started taking time out to
listen to him sing and gbam! That guy can sing to save his life and yours
*smiles*. Between 2005 and 2008 he produced three albums; ‘Unpredictable’, ‘Intuition’
and the ‘Best Night of My Life’ all
of which charted tops on the US Billboard 200 and today he stands tall as one
of the great Grammy Award winning artists which is another feather to many of
the feathers on his successful hat. He surely is now living up to his name as ‘Jamie
King’ which he played in his sitcom between 1996 and 2001.
Who says being adopted does not come with a lot
more goodies than has been told in the past? Having been raised by his
mother's adoptive parents in a black quarter in Terrell, Texas which at that
time was a racially segregated community, he nevertheless had a strict Baptist
upbringing as he took part in the choir and started playing the piano at five
even as his natural talent for jokes became obvious as a very young teenager.After completing Terrell High School, he received a scholarship to study classical music at the United States International University and the rest is history.
Need I say more about this wonderful man? He is
no doubts ‘unpredictable’ because I know for a fact that at the rate he’s
moving, we’ve only seen a little of the stuff he’s really made of, for I
strongly presume there’s so much more to come from ‘Jamie’ Foxx the ‘King’.
So until then, let’s keep our fingers crossed as
we await more mind-blowing acts from JAMIE FOXX. And Hey Katie! You go on girl!!
Keep loving this great-man-of-the-moment who has very often acknowledged that
one of the greatest reasons for his success is the influence of his grandmother
in his life!!!
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