- American record producer, conductor, arranger, composer, musician, TV producer, film producer, instrumentalist, magazine founder, entertainment company executive, and humanitarian
Real name: | Quincy Delight Jones Jr. |
Quincy Jones Height
| How tall is Quincy Jones? | 169 cm / 5 ft 7 in | Born: | 14 March 1933 Comment | How old is Quincy Jones in 2024? / Age: | 91 years
| Where was Quincy Jones born? | Chicago, Illinois, United States | Residence: | Los Angeles, California, US | Nicknames: | Q | Zodiac sign: | Pisces |
Quincy Jones Net worth 2024 (estimated)
| How much is Quincy Jones worth? | $310,000,000
| Nationality: | American | Hair color: | Grey | Eyes color: | Brown |
Who is Quincy Jones? / Facts
- Career span - Six decades in the entertainment industry and a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, and 28 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend Award in 1991
- Rise to fame - He rose to fame in the 1950s as a jazz arranger and conductor, before moving on to work prolifically in pop music and film scores
- In 1968, Jones and his songwriting partner Bob Russell became the first African Americans to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song, their "The Eyes of Love" for the Universal Pictures film Banning
- That same year, Jones was the first African American to be nominated twice within the same year for an Academy Award for Best Original Score, as he was also nominated for his work on the film In Cold Blood (1967)
- In 1971, Jones was the first African American to be named as the musical director and conductor of the Academy Awards ceremony
- In 1995, he was the first African American to receive the Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
- He is tied with sound designer Willie D. Burton as the African American who has been nominated for the most Oscars; each has received seven nominations
- Jones was the producer, with Michael Jackson, of Jackson's albums Off the Wall (1979), Thriller (1982), and Bad (1987), as well as the producer and conductor of the 1985 charity song "We Are the World", which raised funds for victims of destitution in Ethiopia
- In 2013, Jones was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as the winner, alongside Lou Adler, of the Ahmet Ertegun Award
- Recognition - Among his awards, Jones was named by Time Magazine as one of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century
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