ДЇor the 2006 PBS television program African American Lives, Jones had his DNA tested, and genealogists researched his family history again. We traced this all the way back to the Laniers, the same family as Tennessee Williams.' Learning that the Lanier immigrant ancestors were French Huguenots who had court musicians among their ancestors, Jones attributed some of his musicianship to them. Jones said, 'He had a baby with my great-grandmother, and my grandmother was born there.

With the help of author Alex Haley in 1972 and Latter-day Saint researchers in Salt Lake City, Jones discovered that one of his mother's ancestors was James Lanier, a relative of poet Sidney Lanier. Jones's paternal grandmother was an ex-slave from Louisville, and Jones later discovered that his paternal grandfather was Welsh. was born in the South Side of Chicago, Illinois on March 14, 1933, the son of Sarah Frances (died 1999), a bank officer and apartment complex manager, and Quincy Delight Jones, a semi-professional baseball player and carpenter from Kentucky. He was named one of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century by Time. In 2013, Jones was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as the winner, alongside Lou Adler, of the Ahmet Ertegun Award. Burton as the second most Oscar-nominated African American, with seven nominations each. In 1995, he was the first African American to receive the academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. In 1971, Jones became the first African American to be the musical director and conductor of the Academy Awards. In 1985, Jones produced and conducted the charity song ' We Are the World', which raised funds for victims of famine in Ethiopia. Jones produced three of popstar Michael Jackson's most successful albums: Off the Wall (1979), Thriller (1982), and Bad (1987). Jones was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score for his work on the 1967 film In Cold Blood, making him the first African American to be nominated twice in the same year. In 1968, Jones became the first African American to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song for 'The Eyes of Love' from the film Banning. He moved easily between musical genres, producing Lesley Gore's major pop hits of the early 1960s (including ' It's My Party') and serving as an arranger and conductor for several collaborations between the jazz artists Frank Sinatra and Count Basie in the same time period. Jones came to prominence in the 1950s as a jazz arranger and conductor before working on pop music and film scores. His career spans 70 years in the entertainment industry with a record of 80 Grammy Award nominations, 28 Grammys, and a Grammy Legend Award in 1992. (born March 14, 1933) is an American record producer, musician, songwriter, composer, arranger, and film and television producer. This statement was issued on Augby Entrata, Inc.Quincy Delight Jones Jr. We will do our best to respond to your feedback within five business days. Feedback:Д®ntrata welcomes feedback in relation to the accessibility of this website.

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