Published on 04/11/2024 22:55
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Death of Quincy Jones: disappearance of a genius producer
Composer, arranger, musician and producer, Quincy Jones has worked with the greatest like Michael Jackson and Frank Sinatra. He died on Sunday November 3 at the age of 91.
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Composer, arranger, musician and producer, Quincy Jones has worked with the greatest, such as Michael Jackson and Frank Sinatra. He died on Sunday November 3 at the age of 91.
In 1985, Quincy Jones took the lead of the humanitarian choir for Ethiopia, which gave the hit We Are the World. A legendary musician, arranger and producer, the friend of Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson died on Sunday November 3 at the age of 91. In his fifty-year career, he has shaped some of the greatest international pop songs. Requested by Frank Sinatra, Quincy Jones will stand out with his own compositions with a Latin jazz tendency and will revolutionize disco and funk.
Producer of the Johnson Brothers, he will also emancipate Michael Jackson from his brothers and offer him his own musical identity. Quincy Jones will thus become a pop legend. Henri Salvador, Nana Mouskouri, Charles Aznavour… The producer will bring his talent to great French names, leaving a timeless mark in the history of music.
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