Music Legend Quincy Jones Leaves Behind a Legacy: 28 Grammy Wins and a Lifetime of Iconic Hits
After the death of Quincy Jones, his family issued a statement saying, “While this is a great loss for our family, we also celebrate his great life and know that there will never be anyone like him again.”
Quincy Jones was born in Chicago in 1933. As a child, she listened to her neighbors playing the piano through the wall, and through her mother’s singing, she became exposed to music. In middle school, he learned to play drums and brass instruments in the school band. At the age of 14, he performed in a band in which Ray Charles participated. Quincy received a scholarship to attend Seattle University, and then transferred to Boston’s Berklee College of Music on another scholarship to continue her studies. However, when the jazz band leader Lionel Hampton hired him as the trumpet player, pianist and arranger of the band, he immediately stopped studying and participated in touring performances, showing his musical talents by arranging songs for singers such as Dinah Washington.
Accompanied Elvis Presley and competed for seven Oscars
“Elvis Presley” made his first television performance, with Quincy Jones playing the trumpet; he participated in the bebop movement of jazz musicians such as Miles Davis during the height of its popularity; but he also owed a debt of US$100,000 for a jazz musical. He was almost desperate and wanted to die. In order to pay off the debt, Quincy joined Mercury Records to supervise records and arrange songs for singers; he also began to help film soundtracks, and his works include “The Plot to Rob the Gold Brick”, “The Dark Moon, the High Wind, the Murderous Night” and “The Fugitive” etc. business card. In 1968, he became the first African-American to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Theme Song with the song “The Eyes of Love” from “Hustlers”. In the same year, he was nominated for Best Score for “The Bold”. record. He has been nominated for seven Oscars, including Best Picture for The Color Purple, which he co-produced.
Produced by Thriller, the best-selling film in history
Quincy Jones dabbled in different genres of music and began collaborating with Frank Sinatra in 1958 until the other party released his last album in 1984. He also worked as a jazz bandleader in his own name, collaborating with Charles Mingus and others. Embracing different music genres made Quincy commercially successful. In the mid-1960s, he produced records for female singer Lesley Gore and recorded sales of 4 million copies, including the number one song “It’s My Party”; later he added funk, disco and even music to the songs. Rock elements. The most successful among them are the three albums “Off the Wall”, “Thriller” and “Bad” produced by Michael Jackson. Among them, “Thriller” has sold approximately 70 million copies and is still the best-selling album to this day. Sweeping 8 Grammy Awards; he served as the producer of the famous song “We are the World” to raise funds for the hungry people in Ethiopia in 1985, which is also a good story. In a music career spanning more than 70 years, he has been nominated for 80 Grammy Awards and won 28 awards in total. However, after Michael Jackson passed away, he launched a lawsuit with his estate management team due to song copyright issues. Quincy won the lawsuit in 2017 and was awarded US$9.4 million in compensation. In 2020, the other party won the appeal and had to return US$6.8 million.
Fans include Joe Hisaishi
After the success of the film “The Color Purple”, Quincy Jones established a film and television production company, and its situation comedy “Cousin” became very popular, and even became famous for Smith, who was just starting out in the entertainment industry. Japanese musician Joe Hisaishi, who often scores Hayao Miyazaki’s films, was originally named Mamoru Fujisawa. His stage name Joe Hisaishi was inspired by his idol Quincy Jones, which shows that the latter has a profound influence.
Quincy Jones has been married three times and had a relationship with Nastassja Kinski in “Leopard Girl”. They have seven children together, including co-starring with Hidetoshi Nishijima in the Apple TV+ series “Shinny” 》Rashida Jones.