Quincy Jones, wanda aka fi sani da mawakin Amurka mai suna, ya mutu a ranar Lahadi, 3 ga watan Nuwamban shekarar 2024, a dai shekarar 91. An sanar da mutuwarsa ta hanyar masanin yaƙi nasa, Arnold Robinson, wanda ya ce Jones ya mutu a gida sa a Bel Air, Los Angeles, California, inda ya bar iyalansa.
Quincy Jones ya kasance babban jigo a masana’antar kiÉ—a ta Amurka na Ć™arni 50 zuwa yanzu. Ya shirya kundin Michael Jackson mai suna ‘Thriller’, ya rubuta kiÉ—an fina-finai da talabijin, kuma ya aiki tare da manyan mawaka kamar Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, da Ella Fitzgerald. Ya kuma shirya kundin sadaka ‘We Are the World‘ a shekarar 1985 don taimakawa wa wadanda suka shafa da yunwa a Habasha.
Jones ya kuma yi aiki a fagen fina-finai da talabijin, inda ya shirya fim din ‘The Color Purple’ na Alice Walker a shekarar 1985, wanda Steven Spielberg ya jagoranta, da kuma kirkirar jerin talabijin ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’ wanda Will Smith ya taka rawa a ciki. Ya kuma kafa mujallar kiÉ—a mai suna Vibe.
Jones ya kasance mutum mai tasiri a fagen agaji, inda ya ba da gudunmawa mai yawa ga abubuwan agaji. A shekarun baya, ya ci gaba da aikinsa na kiÉ—a da agaji, inda ya fitar da tarihin rayuwarsa mai suna ‘Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones’ a shekarar 2001, da kuma wani shirin gajeren fim game da rayuwarsa a shekarar 2018, wanda ‘yar uwarsa, Rashida Jones, ta shirya.
