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13, 1967, Foxx was raised by his grandmother who started giving him piano lessons when he was five. He went on to play for church groups, and studied classical music in college. After making a name for himself as a stand-up comic and a television actor on Fox's In Living Color, Foxx segued into music, releasing an album on the FOX record label entitled Peep This in 1994. In 2001, he hosted the MTV Video Music Awards, but his music career wouldn't take off until 2004 when he was featured on rapper Kanye West's song, "Slow Jamz." 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". This was followed by the release of Foxx's sophomore effort, Unpredictable, which reached the #1 spot on the R&B charts in its second week out, and established Foxx as formidable musical talent, and making him only the fourth artist to have won an Academy Award for acting (Ray) and to have achieved a number-one record album in the US



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. In December 2006 Foxx received 4 Grammy nominations, including Best R&B Performance, Best R&B Album, Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Sung/Collaboration. In December 2008, Foxx came out with his third studio album, Intuition, which featured collaborations with Kanye West, Lil Wayne and T-Pain, with production by such hot names as The Dream and Timbaland. Jamie Foxx has clearly given notice that he intends to make a life in music as well as acting.