Legendary musician Quincy Jones has died at age 91.
Jones’ publicist, Arnold Robinson stated he died Sunday evening at his house 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 stated in an announcement. “And though that is an unbelievable 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 after all greatest identified for producing Michael Jackson’s historic and report breaking album Thriller but in addition for writing prize-winning movie and tv scores in addition to collaborating with Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles and tons of of different artists. He received a complete of 28 GRAMMYs by way of his virtually 7 decades-long profession.
“If an album doesn’t do properly, everybody says ‘it was the producers fault’; so if it does properly, it needs to be your ‘fault,’ too,” Jones stated in an interview with the Library of Congress in 2016. “The tracks don’t simply hastily seem. The producer has to have the talent, expertise and skill to information the imaginative and prescient to completion.”