I was the lucky one. Who was my sister? I want to do my dance solo in that video. The Down syndrome community was able to see her and she was such an inspiration. She was an ambassador for the Global Down Syndrome Foundation for 11 years. Personally, she always reminded me about the little things.
She lived in such a beautiful way that she taught me how to always find the joy. Why did you want to take the role? You made it. She would have been proud. Something good needed to happen, which for me has been this film about truly living. Music is such a big part of this story. Did your love of music get you into the zone to play this jazz musician role? Music means so much to me personally. My life revolves around music. I play a jazz musician here, but I listened to all kinds of music to get into the role, from Thelonious Monk to Ray Charles.
Our first conversation was about jazz and how much we all loved it. Jazz is about as many notes as you can fill in. Boom, Foxx moves on to recounting another dad tale—this one involving his preteen nephew, a wayward basketball, and a window—that has me, two waiters, and several tables of strangers doubled over in laughter. I get it. Now, get out here and clean this shit the fuck up! Covid put a halt to all that. But it did allow me to lock down and get things done artistically that I may not have gotten an opportunity to do.
And then we got hit bad with my sister passing away. Foxx had always wanted to write about his life, he says, but it was the pandemic that forced him to sit still and look inward.
Everything he first learned about life came from Estelle Marie Talley and Mark Talley, the couple who adopted him at seven months old and raised him in tiny Terrell, Texas. His upbringing was rather complicated. But shit was really fucked up. It was Estelle who persuaded a five-year-old Foxx, then known by his birth name, Eric Marlon Bishop, to take up classical piano, which paved the way for a music scholarship to United States International University. And it was Estelle who let him watch The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and then try out jokes on her, which turned into full stand-up routines when Foxx was in the third grade.
In the third grade! My grandmother was funny as fuck. Maybe James River is only one more musical milestone in the making. Or maybe it? According to Lindsay Guion, D? No collaborators have been confirmed.
The artist is living in Richmond. Guion says they have just signed a contract for a U. So, the bottom line seems to be that nobody? Angelo at least well into the fall. After repeated requests for an interview, D? Music, in my experience, reaches its highest state in these special, these sacred spaces, to be enjoyed to the fullest extent. And when people and music come together in these spaces, there should be no distractions.
A topic which I have been observing for years and which endangers the connection between people and music even more, which is much more important to me than Corona: The progressing digitalization.
This apparently self-chosen isolation, where you always hear the same thing and an algorithm tells you at some point what you'd like to hear. You narrow down your diversity, you become numb. And "Night Travel" as the last single and last video now tells about the end of the story, the end of the journey. And the end is actually the beginning. Corona will pass and people will go back to clubs or festivals.
But this digital isolation, this dementia that you experience when you are no longer among people and instead only by yourself and your own algorithm, which is dictated by a few designers in Silicon Valley - that's what I find really dangerous. Above all a plea against the limitations that we build for ourselves.
Because I think music is too big and too important for that. We need diversity and we need community, that's what has always made us human. Because we've been doing this since the beginning of time: gathering and dancing to the rhythm of the drums.
And have a little drink while we're at it. Ocean feat. Jamie Foxx. The two met in Los Angeles. Later they met in Los Angeles again, for the video shoot of Ocean, in which Foxx walks through empty streets, only encountering deep sea creatures, with the underlying message: as vital as water, the essence of life, is for the body, music is for the soul.
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