Quincy Jones, singer, arranger and producer of the biggest stars of music of the last decades, He died this Sunday at his home in California at the age of 91. his promoter Arnold Robinson reported this Monday in a statement.
“With a full but broken heart, we must share the news of the passing of our father and brother Quincy Jones. And while this is an incredible loss for our family, we celebrate the great life he lived and know there will never be another like him,” he said the Jones family in the statement issued by the promoter.
“He was truly unique and will be deeply missed; it gives us great comfort and pride to know that the love and joy, which were the essence of his being, were shared with the world through everything he created. Through his music and his love without limits, Quincy Jones’ heart will beat for eternity,” they added in the statement.
Educated in the world of jazz, Jones became one of the most important figures in pop music. He collected six of his 27 Grammy Awards for his 1990 album Back on the Block and he was awarded producer of the year three times, recalls the specialized press.
Quincy Delight Jones, known as Quincy Jones, jazz musician, producer and arranger, was born in Chicago, on March 14, 1933. He started in show business as a trumpeter and also as a pianist, soon evolving into a composer, instrumentalist and orchestra director.
Subsequently, he became a director of a major North American record company, soon becoming a highly awarded record and film producer.
Of the wide range of activities carried out by Quincy Jones, it is worth highlighting the symphonic composition titled Black Requiem premiered by the Houston Symphony Orchestra with an 80-voice choir, with Ray Charles as soloist, as well as the production of records Thrillerin 1987, and Bad, two of Michael Jackson’s most awarded works.
Jones has always worked in all kinds of musical languages but the title of “jazz musician” is the one that made him most proud. For nine years, 1980 to 1989, Jones dedicated himself to producing records for his friends: Michael Jackson, Chaka Khan, James Ingram or Patti Austinand other famous artists such as Frank Sinatra or Donna Summer, as well as composing, among others, the film’s soundtrack The color purpleby Steven Spielberg.
In 1989, Jones released albums again, nine years after the spectacular success obtained with The Dudewhich served to add more awards to his collection of Grammy and Oscar awards.
Thus, this year he releases the new album Back on the blocka colloquial expression to indicate his return with his own name, a work with which Jones once again repeats the formula of summoning disparate singers and instrumentalists of black music, from jazz to urban rap.
In 1990, and within the framework of the XXIV edition of the International Record Market, MIDEM, held in Cannes, he was awarded the official insignia of the Legion of Honor.
In December of this same year, Quincy Jones received a new Grammy, which came from the one that the duo Milli Vanilli returned a month before when it was discovered that the voices that sounded on their albums were those of other singers.
On February 20, 1991 won six Grammys during the 33rd edition of these awards granted annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States. With these new six awards, including best album, producer, rap song for a group and instrumental arrangement, Jones now has 25 throughout his professional career.
In 1985, Jones made international headlines as producer of We Are the World from USA for Africathe single dedicated to famine relief in Africa; Michael Jackson co-wrote the song with Lionel Richie and led its all-star cast of vocalists.
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