Quincy Jones Musical artist

Quincy Delight Jones, Jr. (born March 14, 1933) is an American record producer, conductor, arranger, composer, musician, television producer, film producer, instrumentalist, magazine founder, entertainment company executive, and humanitarian. His career spans six decades in the entertainment industry and a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend Award in 1991. He is a descendant of the Tikar people in Cameroon. Jones and fellow artist Alison Krauss hold the record for having the second most won Grammys in history.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 being the producer and conductor of the 1985 charity song "We Are the World".In 2013 Jones was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as the winner, alongside Lou Adler, of the Ahmet Ertegun Award. 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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Alias (AKA)	Jones Quincy Delight Jr. music
Birth date	March 14, 1933
Birth place	Chicago

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Musical artist

Career started	1951
associated musical artist	Dean Martin Aaliyah Frank Sinatra Tupac Shakur Eddie Van Halen Michael Jackson Dizzy Gillespie The Brothers Johnson Dinah Washington Lesley Gore Marvin Gaye Ray Charles Sarah Vaughan Stevie Wonder Will Smith Tamia Patti Austin Lionel Hampton Trey Songz Rod Temperton Toots Thielemans Tevin Campbell
Background	Non performing personnel
genre	Funk Jazz Rhythm and blues Rock and roll Big band Soul music Swing music Bossa nova Hip hop music
instrument	Horn (instrument)
record label	Interscope Records Mercury Records ABC Records Warner Bros. Records Columbia Records Epic Records Qwest Records