The music world has lost one of it’s colossus Quincy Jones. He died Sunday at his home in Bel Air, Los Angeles peacefully surrounded by his family at the age of 91.
Regarded as one of the best music producers in the world Quincy Jones in his career spanning 75 years had his hand in all popular genre of music. He was a notable jazz musician and produced for great musicians like Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra, Celine Dion, Count Basie and many others.
His famous production include the “Off the Wall,” “Thriller” and “Bad” albums with Michael Jackson, him become the most successful pop artist of all time.
For the better part of the Eighties and Nineties, it was unlikely that music fans would not own at least one record with Jones’s name on it.
“Tonight, with full but broken hearts, we must share the news of our father and brother Quincy Jones’s passing,” the family’s statement said. “And although this is an incredible loss for our family, we celebrate the great life that he lived and know there will never be another like him,” his publicist, Arnold Robinson, said.
Quincy Jones won 28 Grammy awards, he was the most nominated artist after Beyoncé and Jay-Z.
Jones’s father was born to a Welsh slave owner and one of his female slaves; his mother’s family were also descended from slave owners. Jones himself was born and raised in Chicago, where he rang with gangs on the South Side. An early introduction to music came from a neighbour playing the piano, which he began to play himself aged seven, and from his mother’s singing.
