<a href="http://www.world-today-news.com/michael-jackson-the-secrets-of-the-thriller-album-news-michael-jackson/" title="Michael Jackson: the secrets of the "Thriller" album – News Michael Jackson”>Quincy Jones, singer, arranger and producer of the biggest music stars in the last decades, died this Sunday at his home in California, at 91 years of ageits promoter reported this Monday Arnold Robinson in a statement from the Jones family.
With a full but broken heart, we must share the news of the passing of our father and brother Quincy Jones. And while this is an incredible loss for our family, we celebrate the great life he lived and know there will never be another like him.
Jones’ career
Quincy Jones was a great influence on american music for his work with artists ranging from Count Basie to Frank Sinatra and who later reformulated pop music by collaborating with Michael Jackson.
Who was Quincy Jones?
Educated in the world of jazzJones became one of the most formidable figures in pop music. picked up six of his 27 Grammy Awards for his 1990 album Back on the Block and was awarded three times as producer of the yearrecalls the specialized press.
Quincy Delight Jonesknown as Quincy Jones, jazz musician, producer and arrangerwas born in Chicago, on March 14, 1933.
He started in the entertainment world as trumpeter and also as a pianistsoon evolving to composer, instrumentalist and conductor.
Subsequently, he took on the position of director of an important North American record company, soon becoming a record and film producer very awarded.
Great productions
Of the wide range of activities carried out by Quincy Jones, it is worth highlighting the symphonic composition entitled Black Requiem, premiered by the Houston Symphony Orchestra with a choir of 80 voices, con Ray Charles as a soloist, as well as the production of the albums Thrillerin 1987, and Badtwo of the latest and most awarded works by Michael Jackson.
Jones always worked in all kinds of musical languages, but the title “jazz musician” is the one he was most proud of.
Productions for your friends
For nine years, 1980 to 1989, Jones dedicated himself to produce records for your friends: Michael Jackson, Chaka Khan, James Ingram or Patti Austin, and other famous artists such as Frank Sinatra o Donna Summeras well as composing, among others, the soundtrack of the film The color purpleof Steven Spielberg.
In 1989, Jones released albums again, nine years after the spectacular success obtained with The Dudewhich served to add more awards to his collection of Grammys y Oscars.
Thus, this year he releases the new LP Back on the blocka colloquial expression to indicate his return with his own name, a work with which Jones repeats the formula of invite singers and instrumentalists disparate aspects of black music, from jazz to urban rap.
Awards
In 1990, and within the framework of the XXIV edition of the International Record Market (MIDEM)held in Cannes, he was awarded the official insignia of the Legion of Honor.
In December of this same year, Quincy Jones received a new Grammywhich came from the one that the duo returned a month before Milli Vanilli When it was discovered that the voices that sounded on their records were from other singers.
On February 20, 1991, he achieved six Grammys during the 33rd edition of these awards granted annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States. With these new six awards, among which are those for best album, producer, rap song for group and instrumental arrangementJones added 25 throughout his professional career.
In 1985, Jones made international headlines as producer of We Are the World of USA for Africathe single dedicated to helping famine in africa; Michael Jackson co-wrote the song with Lionel Richie and led his stellar cast of vocalists
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