Grandma’s Hands: Celebrities Who Were Raised By Relatives
Jamie Foxx
Jamie Foxx’s birth mother was adopted shortly after he was born, and his adoptive grandparents not only raised him, but put him on the path to stardom.
“My grandmother said, ‘I’m going to give you all the things I wanted to give my children, but they were a little too old to understand.
‘I’m going to make sure you play the piano because I think that could get you on the other side of the tracks.’”