Jamie Foxx was born Eric Marlon Bishop in Terrell,
Texas, to Louise Annette Talley and Darrell Bishop, who worked as a stockbroker
and had later changed his name to Shahid Abdula.
His mother was an adopted
child. When her marriage to his father failed, his maternal grandparents, Mark
and Estelle Talley, stepped in and, at age 7 months, adopted Jamie too.
He has
said that he had a very rigid upbringing that placed him in the Boy Scouts and
the church choir. During high school, he played quarterback for his high school
team and was good enough that he got press in Dallas newspapers.
He studied
music in college. He released a music album in 1994, "Peep This" and
sings the theme song for his 1999 movie, Any Given Sunday (1999). However, in
1989, his life changed when a girl friend challenged him to get up onstage at
the Comedy Club. In fact, he says he took his androgynous stage name because he
learned that women got preference for mike time on open stage nights. That led
to his being cast in Roc (1991) and In Living Color (1990) and ultimately to his
own WB network TV series. He has a daughter, Corrine, born in 1995, who lives
with her mother.
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