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Jamie Foxx is an American actor, comedian, and singer born in 1967 in Terrell, Texas. Foxx originally rose to stardom as a stand-up comedian and on the television comedy show In Living Color. Foxx has also been featured in movies such as Ray, Collateral, Any Given Sunday, Miami Vice, Booty Call, Django Unchained and The Amazing Spider-Man 2. He has also released the albums Peep This, Unpredictable, Intuition,and Best Night of My Life. Foxx’s hit songs include Unpredictable, Can I Take U Home,and DJ Play a Love Song. He has won awards such as an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, and two Grammy Awards.

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19 May, 1994

Jamie Foxx interview

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Jamie Foxx is interviewed by Hall on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about how he got a record deal because of his exposure on Hall’s show. He does an acapella of various music that he improvises.

What I do is I take different songs and ladies like Luther when I (sing), ‘I need to have you next to me…in more way than one and I refuse to leave when I see the morning son!’

1 Dec, 2005

O Magazine Interview

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Foxx gives his thoughts on why winning an Oscar caught him off guard:

Winning the Oscar. Everybody was crying. Speedy, a friend I’ve known since I was Eric Bishop, and all the other guys couldn’t hold back. Because it’s like this: Halle and Denzel are supposed to win the Oscars. Speedy and I were always just a couple of Wet Willies [pranksters] with cops harassing us. You know how our folks are: When one of us wins, we all just want to celebrate.

O Magazine interview

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Foxx talks to Winfrey for O Magazine about the most successful event in his career.

Winning the Oscar. Everybody was crying. Speedy, a friend I’ve known since I was Eric Bishop, and all the other guys couldn’t hold back. Because it’s like this: Halle and Denzel are supposed to win the Oscars. Speedy and I were always just a couple of Wet Willies [pranksters] with cops harassing us. You know how our folks are: When one of us wins, we all just want to celebrate.

4 May, 2013

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Winfrey interviews Jamie Foxx  and talks about being a SNL host and his music career.

In different forms at different times. When I’m in the studio, I’m completely focused on music. But it’s tough for me when I’m with other musicians, as it makes me think of my childhood. When I was younger, I was funny, but I really only wanted to be a recording artist. I just didn’t get the chance – until recently.

Jamie Foxx's Life-Changing Lessons | Oprah's Next Chapter | Oprah Winfrey Network

16 Mar, 2015

On Air interiew

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Seacrest interviews Foxx during On Air With Ryan Seacrest about his single You Changed Me. 

It’s great for me because it’s not too, too young, which my daughter always reminds me, ‘Don’t get too young. My daughter is always on me even when I was trying to wear ‘too young’ of a shoe. With this music, I let her hear the music and she said, ‘Dad, that’s it. You’re young, it’s fly, it’s grown’.