Nov. 4, 2024, 8:11 AM UTC / Updated Nov. 4, 2024, 1:15 PM UTC
Quincy Jones, a genius of American music and a titan of the show business who affected almost every popular category, produced landmark albums and made 80 Grammy Award elections, passed away Sunday, his press agent stated.
He was 91.
Jones “died quietly” Sunday night at his home in the Bel Air community of Los Angeles surrounded by his household, according to his press agent, Arnold Robinson.
“Tonight, with complete however damaged hearts, we need to share the news of our daddy and bro Quincy Jones' death. And although this is an amazing loss for our household, we commemorate the excellent life that he lived and understand there will never ever be another like him,” Jones' household stated in a declaration.
In a respected profession that covered more than 70 years, Jones developed himself as a behind-the-scenes force and a talented artist in his own right, working as an arranger, author, songwriter and entertainer.
He left enduring imprints on jazz, pop, hip-hop and lots of movie and tv soundtracks, working together with a few of the most renowned names in the American songbook, from Count Basie and Dinah Washington to Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin and Paul Simon.
Quincy Jones at work in a recording studio in 1963. Guy Terrell/ Redferns through Getty Images file
He produced Michael Jackson's smash record “Thriller,” along with Steven Spielberg's adjustment of “The Color Purple” and the NBC comedy “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”– tasks that assisted strengthen his tradition as a hit-maker and a media magnate.
Jones got various awards and distinctions, consisting of acknowledgment at the Kennedy Center Honors in 2001, a National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in 2010 and induction into the Rock & & Roll Hall of Fame in 2013. In 2021, he signed up with James Brown and Otis Redding as one of the very first 3 “fundamental conscripts” of the Black Music & & Entertainment Walk of Fame in Atlanta.
Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones at the Grammys in Los Angeles in 1984. Bob Riha Jr./ Getty Images file
“As a master innovator of musical hybrids, he has actually blended pop, soul, hip-hop, jazz, classical, African and Brazilian music into numerous stunning blends, passing through essentially every medium, consisting of records, live efficiencies, films and tv,” Obama stated in his remarks.
Jones won 28 Grammys, putting him 3rd on the list of all-time winners. He snatched an Emmy in 1977 for composing the style for the very first episode of the miniseries “Roots” and later on got the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the Oscars in 1994.
Quincy Delight Jones Jr. was born in Chicago on March 14, 1933, the boy of Quincy Delight Jones, a semiprofessional baseball gamer and carpenter, and Sarah Frances, a bank officer and apartment building supervisor.
President Barack Obama grants the National Medal of Arts to Quincy Jones at the White House in 2011. Jim Watson/ AFP by means of Getty Images file
Jones was very first exposed to music by his mom,
