Jamie Foxx Tickets Continued
Jamie Foxx is a singer and accomplished musician. He started playing piano at a
young age, and later took classical piano lessons while attending college. In 1994, Jamie
Foxx released an album entitled Peep This, which was only mildly successful. In
2001, he hosted the MTV Video Music Awards.
Jamie Foxx's music career went into a higher gear when, in 2004, he was featured
on rapper Twista's song, "Slow Jamz", also featuring Kanye West. The song reached number
one on the US Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart, as well as number three on the UK singles
chart. Jamie 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 straight. In 2005, Jamie 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. #1 spot in its 2nd week. After debuting in the first
week at No. 2, 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 No. 9. It has since been certified silver. Jamie Foxx
received a nomination for a 2006 Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for
the song "Creepin".
Jamie Foxx became the fourth artist to have won an Academy Award for acting
(for his portrayal of Charles in Ray) and achieved a No. 1 album in the US. The other three to
accomplish this feat were Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Barbra
Streisand. Jamie 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 Jamie Foxx with Twista. In
the UK, however, the second single was "Extravaganza", which saw Jamie Foxx once
again collaborate with Kanye West. He was not, however, featured in the song's music
video.
