Quincy Jones, the legendary songwriter, producer and composer who labored with everybody from Michael Jackson to Ray Charles to Frank Sinatra has died at his dwelling in Bel Air, California on Sunday (November 3).
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The music icon’s publicist, Arnold Robinson confirmed his passing in a press release, revealing Jones died at dwelling surrounded by his family members. He was 91 years previous.
“Tonight, with full however damaged hearts, we should share the information of our father and brother Quincy Jones’ passing,” the assertion learn. “And though that is an unimaginable loss for our household, we have a good time the nice life that he lived and know there’ll by no means be one other like him.”
With a profession spanning over seven a long time, Quincy Jones is well known as some of the versatile and profitable figures in music historical past. His in depth legacy consists of collaborations with many different legendary artists, together with producing Michael Jackson’s Off the Wall, Thriller and Dangerous albums. Notably, Thriller stays the best-selling album of all time, largely as a consequence of Jones’s visionary manufacturing.
“If an album doesn’t do properly, everybody says ‘it was the producers fault’; so if it does properly, it must be your ‘fault,’ too,” Jones mentioned in an interview with the Library of Congress in 2016. “The tracks don’t simply impulsively seem. The producer has to have the talent, expertise and skill to information the imaginative and prescient to completion.”
It wasn’t simply pop the place Quincy Jones shone. His influential work crossed many genres with Jones embracing jazz, R&B, gospel, soul, funk, blues, disco, rock and rap.
He’s additionally composed music for movies and tv, incomes a number of Grammy Awards and Academy Award nominations. Jones is without doubt one of the most awarded Grammy recipients with 28 wins, the second most wins of all time.
AlllHipHop prolonged its condolences to Quincy Jones’ household and family members.
