Legendary musician Quincy Jones has died at age 91.
Jones’ publicist, Arnold Robinson stated he died Sunday night time at his residence within the Bel Air part of Los Angeles, surrounded by his household. “Tonight, with full however damaged hearts, we should share the information of our father and brother Quincy Jones’ passing,” the household stated in a press release. “And though that is an unbelievable loss for our household, we have fun the good life that he lived and know there’ll by no means be one other like him.”
Quincy was in fact greatest identified for producing Michael Jackson’s historic and document breaking album Thriller but additionally for writing prize-winning movie and tv scores in addition to collaborating with Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles and a whole lot of different artists. He gained a complete of 28 GRAMMYs by his virtually 7 decades-long profession.
“If an album doesn’t do effectively, everybody says ‘it was the producers fault’; so if it does effectively, it must be your ‘fault,’ too,” Jones stated in an interview with the Library of Congress in 2016. “The tracks don’t simply unexpectedly seem. The producer has to have the talent, expertise and talent to information the imaginative and prescient to completion.”
