Hip Hip Who Ray? ; Mike Davies Takes Musical Notes with Jamie Foxx

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Having, as anticipated, picked up the Golden Globe for Best Actor for his title role performance in Ray, the story of the late blind music legend Ray Charles, it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that Jamie Foxx will land an Academy Award nomination. And, if Denzel Washington's prediction runs true, the Oscar itself.

Not bad going for someone who, this time last year, was best known as a stand-up comedian with just minor roles in the likes of Any Given Sunday and Ali to his name.

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Hip Hip Who Ray? ; Mike Davies Takes Musical Notes with Jamie Foxx

Then came Collateral in which he stole the film from under Tom Cruise's nose (and for which he also received a Globe nomination), and now Ray in which he doesn't just play Ray Charles, he becomes him. And yet Foxx is the first to admit that, prior to taking on the film, his awareness of the man generally regarded as the father of American R&B, was pretty basic.

'All I knew about Ray Charles was the stuff you are supposed to know,' he says. 'That he was a part of our...

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