Celebrity Birthdays – December 13: Jamie Foxx shares his 50th with Miss Taylor Swift
Who do you share a birthday with today?
• Taylor Alison Swift (28)
This American singer/songwriter was the youngest artist to have ever been signed by Sony/ATV Music publishing house at the age of 14. Her debut album in 2006 made the number five spot on the Billboard 200 and album’s third single, ‘Our Song’, made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Hot Country Songs chart.
Her second album, Fearless, won four Grammy Awards, which lead Taylor to becoming the youngest Album of the Year winner.
To date, Taylor is also the recipient of 10 Grammy Awards, five Guinness World Records, one Emmy Award, 21 Billboard Music Awards, 12 Country Music Association Awards, eight Academy of Country Music Awards, and one Brit Award.
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• Eric Marlon Bishop AKA Jamie Foxx (50)
The American actor, singer, songwriter, producer, and comedian is a man of many talents. Jamie was given an Academy Award for Best Actor, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy when he starred as Ray Charles in Ray (2004).
This year, Jamie is the host and executive producer of the game show Beat Shazam.
A few other movies he’s been in is Django Unchained, super villain Electro in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, he had one of the leads in Annie and played gangster Bats / Leon Jefferson III in Baby Driver.
He is also a Grammy Award-winning musician having produced four albums which have charted in the top ten of the US Billboard 200: Unpredictable (2005), Intuition (2008), Best Night of My Life (2010), and Hollywood: A Story of a Dozen Roses (2015).
(Source: Wikipedia)
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