Birthday: March 14, 1933 (Pisces)
Born In: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Quincy Jones
(Musician and Second Most Oscar-Nominated African American)
Quincy Delight Jones, Jr., popularly known as Quincy Jones in the music industry, was a multifaceted American celebrity who has made his name as a record producer, film and television producer, composer, conductor, arranger, instrumentalist, jazz trumpeter and record company executive. His love for music was quite evident to his family since he was a young boy and it was the musician Ray Charles, who is also his teenage friend, who convinced him to explore music professionally. Jones with his talent with trumpet and magnificent composing abilities earned himself a scholarship to Berklee College of Music, Boston, but he decided to dropout from college and pursued freelancing. After composing music for Barclay Records in Paris, he started composing music for some of the big names in the industry. It was after he formed his own companies, Qwest Productions and Quincy Jones Entertainment that he composed and arranged for many movies, television scores and artists like Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra, etc and became the most Grammy-nominated artist in history, with 79 nominations and 27 wins. Jones was also a philanthropist and besides giving the world its humanitarian anthem ‘We Are The World’, he also founded charities like Quincy Jones Listen Up Foundation.
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