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    Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933) is an American record producer, songwriter, composer, arranger, and film and television producer. [1] His career spans over 70 years, with 28 Grammy Awards won out of 80 nominations, [2] and a Grammy Legend Award in 1992. Jones came to prominence in the 1950s as a jazz arranger and conductor before ...

  2. Apr 2, 2014 · Famed producer Quincy Jones was born Quincy Delight Jr. on March 14, 1933, in Chicago, Illinois. A multifaceted jazz and pop figure, his career began when he played trumpet and arranged for Lionel ...

  3. May 6, 2024 · Music industry legend Quincy Jones is a father of seven kids. Here's everything to know about his children — Jolie, Rachel, Martina, Quincy III, Kidada, Rashida and Kenya.

  4. www.imdb.com › name › nm0005065Quincy Jones - IMDb

    Quincy Jones. Producer: The Color Purple. Considered to be one of the greatest minds in music and television history, Quincy Delight Jones, Jr. was born on March 14, 1933 in Chicago, Illinois. He is the son of Sarah Frances (Wells), a bank executive, and Quincy Delight Jones, Sr., a carpenter. Jones found his love for music while he was enrolled in grade school at Seattle's Garfield High ...

  5. Jun 12, 2024 · Quincy Jones (born March 14, 1933, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.) is an American musical performer, producer, arranger, and composer whose work encompasses virtually all forms of popular music. Jones was born in Chicago and reared in Bremerton, Washington, where he studied the trumpet and worked locally with the then-unknown pianist-singer Ray Charles.

  6. Sep 28, 2018 · The toughest challenge Quincy presented was figuring out a story to tell that hadn’t already been chronicled in detail in previous documentaries, like Quincy Jones: In the Pocket, filmed in 2001 ...

  7. Jun 20, 2022 · Ever since his earliest career moves as a teenage trumpet player working with a then-rising performer named Ray Charles, Quincy Jones has gone on to impact nearly every aspect of the music industry. In this episode of Black Sounds Beautiful, revisit the storied, seven-decade-long career of the Chicago native who rose to prominence as a musician, songwriter, arranger and producer of records ...

  8. Jun 22, 2005 · Quincy Jones is an American record producer, multi-instrumentalist, singer, and film producer. His career spans over 60 years in the entertainment industry with a record 80 Grammy Award ...

  9. Aug 22, 2016 · 1. Quincy Jones was born in Chicago in 1933. His full name is Quincy Delightt Jones. 2. Quincy has credited his musical career to a life-changing experience he had as an 11-year-old living in ...

  10. Quincy Jones’s enormous success in the 1980s was the culmination of an extraordinary career. A classically trained musician who grew up in Seattle, Washington, he was a gospel singer at age 12, a jazz arranger in New York City in his early 20s, and musical director of Barclay Records in France soon after. In the 1960s he worked with Ray Charles, oversaw the artists-and-repertoire department ...