Jamie Foxx Shares Incredible Karaoke Story of Singing With Whitney Houston
Foxx said the experience was "wild."
— -- Jamie Foxx is an Oscar winner and an accomplished singer in his own right, but he once got to sing karaoke with the legendary Whitney Houston.
"We did karaoke together," he told MTV News. "Me, Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, did karaoke at this little club in LA. I had it on a tape and I put it in a safety deposit box thinking 'Oh, this is going to be special one day' and then YouTube came out."
Foxx's "Annie" co-star Rose Byrne asked him, "What did you sing?"
“She sung, ‘and I will always love you,’” Foxx, 47, said. “Then Me and Bobby did ‘Don’t Be Cruel’ and as we are singing, Bobby forgets the words.”
Foxx said the experience was "wild!"
How did this come about?
Well, Foxx said he was doing a karaoke night with like 500 people and that everyone begged Houston to sing.
"These were the days before camera phones," Foxx added. "I am actually going to the bathroom and I hear, 'I don't sing this for everybody Jamie' and she got up and she blessed up with it. At that time, all people could do was call their answering machine and hold up like this and listen to her voice. She was absolutely perfect."
Houston died in 2012 at the age of 48. Foxx did not say when the karaoke session took place.