Quincy Jones is dead –

Quincy Jones is dead. Photo from 2019. AOP

American music all-rounder Quincy Jones has died at the age of 91. The AP News news site reported on the matter, among others.

Jones’ spokesman Arnold Robinson announces that the musician died Sunday night at his home in Bel Air, Los Angeles. According to Robinson, Jones died surrounded by his family.

– Although this is a great loss for our family, we celebrate the great life he lived. We know there will never be another like him, the family says in the announcement.

Jones had a career as a trumpeter, songwriter and music, film and television producer.

Jones produced, among other things Michael Jackson’s Thrilleralbum. In addition, he collaborated with, among other things Frank Sinatran and Ray Charles with.

Jones composed the theme music for the 1967 crime film In the heat of the night and historical Roots– television series in 1977. The television company founded by Jones produced, among other things, a successful comedy series The Prince of Bel-Air.

Jones produced a charity song released in 1985 We Are the Worldin which Michael Jackson sang, among others, Lionel Ritchie, Diana Ross and Tina Turner.

Jones received 80 Grammy nominations and 28 awards in his career. Both numbers are the third-highest in Grammy history.

Born in Chicago in 1933, Jones was married three times: by Jeri Caldwell with between 1957 and 1966, Swedish model by Ulla Andersson with between 1967 and 1974 and an American actress Peggy Liptonin with in the years 1974–1990. Jones married Lipton a day after the divorce from Andersson took effect.

Jones had seven children with a total of five different women. Jones’ son Quincy Jones III is a music producer, daughters Statistics and Rashida are Actors and a daughter Kenya is a model. Kidada Jones, 50, who also works as a model and fashion designer, dated a rap artist in the 1990s Tupac Shakur’s with. The cohabitation ended with Shakur’s death.

In later life, Jones dated several women younger than himself. At the age of 73, Jones met 19-year-old Egyptian designer Heba Elawad. Jones allegedly also met the ex-president Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump.