CELEBRITY Q&A Checking in with Jamie Foxx

Jamie Foxx may be happier than ever to be back with “Beat Shazam.”

The Oscar-winning actor, comedian and musician had an unspecified medical emergency and subsequent hospitalization last year, but he returns — along with his daughter Corinne (“Dollface”) — to preside over the Fox game show when it begins its seventh season Tuesday, May 28. Two-person teams try to identify songs, with the highest-scoring duo then going up against the music app Shazam for a chance to win $1 million. This season, some teams will consist of fathers, mothers, siblings, teachers and others who have a shared identity.

Also an executive producer of “Beat Shazam,” Jamie Foxx might have seemed a surprising person to fill the hosting job when the show premiered in 2017. By that point, Foxx was a well-established movie star, having won an Academy Award and many other honors for his portrayal of music icon Ray Charles in “Ray” (2004). He also had a 2007 Grammy for his collaboration with T-Pain on “Blame It.”

However, taking a job on the Fox network was a homecoming of sorts for Foxx, since he had been a cast member of the sketch comedy series “In Living Color” in the early 1990s. He also appeared in the Fox show “Roc,” then parlayed those experiences into his own sitcom for the thenWB Network, the appropriately named “The Jamie Foxx Show.”

During that weekly TV tenure for him, Foxx was also cementing his movie work with such credits as the Oliver Stone-directed football drama “Any Given Sunday” (1999) and the melodrama “Collateral” (2004). He was also building a musical identity, by working with the likes of Kanye West (“Runaway”) and Ludacris

Jamie Foxx is back to host “Beat Shazam”

(“Get Back”), establishing his 2,” “Soul,” “Just Mercy,” own success in that field via such “Robin Hood,” “Baby Driver,” albums as “Intuition” and “Best “Sleepless,” “Annie,” “Horrible Night of My Life.” Bosses,” “Horrible Bosses 2,” “A

With “Beat Shazam” now Million Ways to Die in the West,” resuming, Foxx gets to satisfy “Rio,” “Rio 2,” “White House multiple entertainment-business Down,” “Django Unchained,” “Due roles for himself again — and, Date,” “Valentine’s Day,” “Law best of all, to do it with much-improved Abiding Citizen,” “The Soloist,” health. “The Kingdom,” “Dreamgirls,”

Birthdate: Dec. 13, 1967 “Miami Vice,” “Jarhead,” “Stealth,”

Birthplace: Terrell, Texas “Ray,” “Collateral,” “Breakin’ All the

Current residence: Los Rules,” “Bait,” “Ali,” “Held Up” Angeles Other television credits

Marital status: Single; has include: “White Famous,” “Live two daughters, including his in Front of a Studio Audience,” “Beat Shazam” co-host Corinne “Jackie Robinson,” “In Living

Movie credits include: Color,” “Elmo’s Christmas Countdown,” “Strays,” “Spider-Man: No Way “Chappelle’s Show,” “The Home,” “The Amazing Spider-Man Jamie Foxx Show”