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THE PULSE OF ENTERTAINMENT: Academy Award winning Jamie Foxx embarks on a 50 city tour
Also: Della Reese introduces new talent and reintroduces legends of the past
Academy Award winning Jamie Foxx embarks on a 50 city tour July 3, 2009
*“I have to go on the road to solidify my music career,” Jamie told me during an interview about his “Intuition Tour” which kicks off Friday July 3, 2009 in Anaheim, CA at The Grove.
Academy, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and NAACP Image Award winning comedian/actor, now platinum selling artist - thanks to the success of his first single off his “Intuition” CD, “Blame It” featuring T-Pain - is riding high on his sophomore projects' success and believes he has to ride the wave as long as he can. The “Intuition Tour” will be riding all the way to October when it ends in Las Vegas.
Jamie said he will never have another opportunity like this. He hopes he will, but he says the odds say maybe not. I think, however, his talent is so touched by God that all things are possible. His single “Blame it” has already broken a record as spending the longest weeks at number one on Urban Mainstream Charts (12 consecutive weeks), topping TLC's “No Scrubs,” which rode the number one slot for 11 weeks. “Blame it” also received the 2009 BET Award (which he hosted while honoring the life of Michael Jackson) for the Best Collaboration.
“We didn't want people to know it was me,” Jamie said when I told him that I didn't know it was him when I first heard the single. “We wanted to stay away from R&B. It's what I came out here to do...what I want to do.”
Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on how you look at his career, Jamie entered into the entertainment business as a comedian/actor. I believe it was his Academy Award winning role as Ray Charles that introduced us to his unbelievable musical talents.
“I learned how to sing by teaching people,” Jamie replied when asked when did he know he had such an amazing voice. “Music was my passion. I didn't know I had a voice. I was minister of music (at his grandmother's church) for the choir. I would teach people parts (alto, tenor, soprano, etc...).”
During the interview it is evident that Jamie is a very spiritual person who knows where his blessings are coming. His personal goal is to stay humble and funny, “most of all funny.”
This is Jamie's second tour produced by Bay Area Productions and Another Planet Entertainment. His first tour, the “Unpredictable Tour,” in 2007 introduced him as a recording artist, I believe this one will solidify, as he said, his position as a singer.
“Ray Charles,” the film, solidified him as an actor (not to forget his current starring role with Robert Downey, Jr. in the film, “The Soloist” and his starring roles in “Collateral,” “Redemption,” “”Dreamgirls,” “Miami Vice,” “Jarhead” and “The Kingdom,”) even though before that he starred in his own sitcom “The Jamie Foxx Show” for years.
Aside from his singing and acting, Jamie is also a radio personality, thanks to his widely popular “The Foxxhole” radio show on Sirius XM, and is a television producer for co-producing the MTV reality show “From G's to Gents”
For more information on the tour or Jamie log onto www.tour.jamiefoxx.com or www.jamiefoxx.com.
Della Reese presents....introduces new talent and reintroduces legends of our past
Truly the highlight of the “Della Reese presents....Jon B., SWV and Noel” red carpet event was Della Reese. When Della arrived at the red carpet, media people, as well as, "celebs" who came out to support her (such as Oscar winning Lou Gossett, Jr., Loretta Devine, Florence LaRue/5th Dimensions, Ernest Thomas/Everybody Hates Chris, producer William Goldstein/Fame, Miki Howard, radio personality Lee Bailey, actor Ernie Hudson/Ghost Busters, comedian/actress Annie McKnight), all bombarded her disrupting the flow of the red carpet in order to say hello and get pictures with the legendary singer/actress.
“The highlight for me is to take it back to music that really really touched people and meant something,” former American Idol Trenyce said about the “Della Reese presents....” concert produced by Michael Stone Events. “I am really really excited to be able to listen to everybody's raw talent. I'm from the Motown era, so I'm very excited.”
The event was held recently at The Wilshire Theater in Beverly Hills and was hosted by the very talented and very funny comedian/actor Tommy Davidson, who has two projects coming out, “Chicago's Pulaski Jones” in September with Cedric the Entertainer and on December 4, 2009 the release of the “Black Dynamite” film, a 70's kung-fu comedy.
“It was Della Reese, it was Della Reese, she asked and I said, 'yes!,'” Tommy laughed about why he took the task of hosting the event.
Della once told me that this is her second year in support of the Michael Stone event, because she wanted to reintroduce some legends of the past that still have unbelievable talents which are going unrecognized. This year the talents she wants to reintroduce is Jon B. and SWV (Sisters With Voices). She said she also wanted to take the opportunity to introduce new talent and at this event it was R&B singer Noel.
Della, who is also an ordained minister (at Understanding Principles for Better Living in Los Angeles), started in the entertainment business as a Gospel artist at the age of 13 in her home town of Detroit and was later hired by Mahalia Jackson to join her group. While in college Della formed her own group The Meditation Singers. In 1953 she moved to New York as a vocalist of the Erskine Hawkins Orchestra and shortly after signed to Jubilee Records. The next year she was voted “The Most Promising Singer” by Billboard, Cashbox and Variety. In 1959 she signed with RCA Records. In 1969 she became host to her own talk show “Della” which was syndicated by RKO. She went into acting in the 70's where she appeared on “Sanford and Son,” “Chico and the Man,” “Night Court,” “Designing Women,” “Room 227,” and her own series with Redd Foxx “The Royal Family.” She is most noted for her starring role in the CBS television series “Touched by an Angel,” for which she received three Emmy nominations.
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