Jamie Foxx at Tao
Intuition

Birthday and Record Release Party

When: December 13th
Saturday 9:30 pm

Where: TAO

About Jamie Foxx
"Ray Charles told me, If you feel it, then you know its right," says Jamie Foxx.

"He taught me how to feel."

The release of Foxxs long-awaited J Records debut, UNPREDICTABLE, demonstrates the lessons
the Oscar-winner learned at the feet of one of musics true giants. With a wide range of sounds and emotions, and a breathtaking list of guest stars adding to the mix, the one-time music student at San Diegos United States International University finally fulfills his true dream. From the party-starting
first single "Unpredictable" to the smoldering "Love Changes," UNPREDICTABLE reveals an artist ready
to play in R&Bs big leagues. Of course, Foxxs musical skills are no secret the album follows his appearance on Kanye Wests #1 single "Gold Digger," which reprised the magic of their collaboration
on last years Grammy-nominated smash "Slow Jamz."

That hit was just one taste of Jamie Foxxs recent unprecedented accomplishments. In addition to winning the 2005 Oscar Academy Award as Best Actor for his career-defining performance in Ray,
he was nominated in the Best Supporting Actor category for his part in Collateral, making him
just the second male actor with nominations for two different films in the same year. Those roles, in conjunction with his acclaimed turn in the FX Networks Redemption, led to him being the first person ever nominated for three acting awards at the Golden Globes and four SAG awards in one year.



True to the albums title, Foxx points to a few songs on UNPREDICTABLE as the most surprising, and thus the ones hes proudest of. "Theres a song called I Wish You Were Here, about my grandmother," he says. "Its a heavy, heavy song we put it at the end of the album, because I want people to bump and grind and enjoy themselves before they get to that. Thats the one that measures your soul." The track "Til I Met Your Sister," he says, presents a new perspective on a slippery situation. "Its about a guy having this infidelity with his girls sister," says Foxx, "but nobody ever has sung about that in a way where its not embarrassing, its not jokey, its really seriouslike, we really did click and theres no way I can fight it."

So did he feel any pressure in following Ray? Was it hard to find the motivation to be creative after giving the performance of a lifetime? Foxx waves off such concerns. "If you go to the mountaintop," he says, "and you hit the very top, even if you go down a hundred feet, youre still on that mountain, and you can still see a whole lot of things. We got a lot of things we passed up cause we were on our way
to the top. Now were gonna go down and maybe set up camp, have a barbecue down here, have a little party over there. Thats what were doing now.

"We just didnt let the curtain go down," says Jamie Foxx with a laugh.

"Were at the after party right now."

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