Name at birth: Quincy Delight Jones, Jr.
Quincy Jones started as a trumpet player, touring with Lionel Hampton in the early 1950s. He soon gained a reputation as an arranger and composer, and was leading his own bands by the end of the decade.
Since then he has worked as an arranger, composer and producer for some of the greatest performers of swing, jazz, blues and hip-hop, from Miles Davis and Frank Sinatra to Little Richard and Michael
Jackson. Nicknamed "Q," Jones is also a noted composer of film and television scores who was especially active in the 1960s and 1970s.
He is the founder of VIBE magazine and Qwest Broadcasting and the winner of over two dozen Grammys.
Extra credit: Film scores