Quincy Jones, mawakin kiɗa da maigirma a masana’antar nishadi, ya mutu a shekaru 91. An tabbatar da rasuwar sa ta hanyar wakilinsa, Arnold Robinson, a ranar Litinin, 4 ga watan Nuwamba, 2024. Jones ya mutu a gida sa a Bel Air, Los Angeles, California, inda ya bar watanni da iyalansa.
Quincy Jones ya yi aiki tare da manyan mawaka kamar Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra, da Ray Charles. Ya shahara sosai saboda samar da albamu masu nasara kamar ‘Thriller’, ‘Off the Wall’, da ‘Bad’ na Michael Jackson. Ya kuma samar da kundin waɗanda suka hada da Aretha Franklin, Donna Summer, George Benson, da Dizzy Gillespie.
Jones ya samu lambobin yabo da dama a cikin aikinsa, ciki har da Grammys 28 daga cikin zaɓe 80. Ya kuma samu lambar yabo ta kwa rayuwa daga Kwalejin Zaɓe ta Fim (Academy Award). Ya kuma kasance mai shirya finafinai na talabijin, inda ya kafa kamfanin samar da talabijin da fim a shekarar 1990, kuma ya samar da shirye-shirye kamar ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air‘ da ‘The Color Purple‘.
Ya kuma shahara a fagen kiɗan jazz, inda ya yi aiki tare da manyan mawaka kamar Count Basie da Ella Fitzgerald. Ya kuma shirya kundin waɗanda suka hada da ‘The Italian Job’, ‘In the Heat of the Night’, da ‘The Color Purple’. Jones ya kasance mai himma a fagen agaji, inda ya shirya kundin waɗanda suka hada da ‘We Are the World‘ a shekarar 1985, wanda ya tara dalar Amurka milioni 45 don agajin yunwa a Habasha.
Jones ya bar wata rayuwa mai nasara da tasiri a masana’antar nishadi, inda ya bar wata al’umma da ke girmama rayuwarsa. Iyalansa sun bayyana cewa, “Tonight, with full but broken hearts, we must share the news of our father and brother Quincy Jones’ passing. 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”.
