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Most recently, Quincy Jones, the brilliant music legend whose genius ranged from working with the likes of Count Basie, Lionel Richie, Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and producing Michael Jackson’s iconic “Thriller,’’ died at 91 on Sunday evening.
Arnold Robinson, his publicist, said he died Sunday evening at his home surrounded by his family in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles.
In a statement, the family wrote “Tonight, with full but broken hearts, we must share the news of our father and brother Quincy Jones’ passing,” the family said. “And although this is an incredible loss for our family, we celebrate the great life that he lived and know there will never be another like him.”
Jones went from hanging with gangs on the Southside of Chicago to joining presidents and becoming one of the greatest Hollywood executives of our times.
