Washington:
Music legend Quincy Jones, who labored with likes of Michael Jackson and Frank Sinatra has handed away on the age of 91, reported Selection.
All through his 70-year profession, he received 28 Grammy awards.
As per the outlet, Jones died Sunday night time at his house in Bel Air, California in accordance with a press release shared by his rep Arnold Robinson.
“Tonight, with full however damaged hearts, we should share the information of our father and brother Quincy Jones’ passing. And though that is an unimaginable loss for our household, we rejoice the good life that he lived and know there’ll by no means be one other like him,” the Jones household mentioned within the assertion.
“He’s really one in all a sort and we’ll miss him dearly; we take consolation and immense delight in understanding that the love and pleasure, that have been the essence of his being, was shared with the world by all that he created. By means of his music and his boundless love, Quincy Jones’ coronary heart will beat for eternity,” learn the assertion.
“Tonight, with full however damaged hearts, we should share the information of our father and brother Quincy Jones’ passing,” as per the assertion shared by his household. “And though that is an unimaginable loss for our household, we rejoice the good life that he lived and know there’ll by no means be one other like him.”
Quincy had some legendary credit to his identify.
He additionally composed the soundtrack of the 1969 movie ‘The Italian Job’, which starred Michael Caine. He obtained six of his 27 Grammy Awards for his 1990 album ‘Again on the Block’ and was a three-time Producer of the Yr honoree.
He’s greatest identified for his manufacturing collaborations with the pop icon Michael Jackson, which began in 1979 with the singer’s solo album ‘Off the Wall’.
Jones obtained a Tony Award nomination in 2006 as producer of the musical adaptation of ‘The Colour Purple’.
Jones launched his autobiography ‘Q’ in 2001, which was an audio model of the ebook obtained a Grammy as Greatest Spoken Phrase Album in 2002. He was married and divorced 3 times and survived by six daughters and a son, in accordance with Selection.
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