Legendary musician Quincy Jones has died at age 91.
Jones’ publicist, Arnold Robinson mentioned he died Sunday evening at his dwelling 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 mentioned in an announcement. “And though that is an unimaginable loss for our household, we have a good time the nice 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 file breaking album Thriller but in addition for writing prize-winning movie and tv scores in addition to collaborating with Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles and lots of of different artists. He received a complete of 28 GRAMMYs via his nearly 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 mentioned in an interview with the Library of Congress in 2016. “The tracks don’t simply impulsively seem. The producer has to have the ability, expertise and talent to information the imaginative and prescient to completion.”
