Quincy Jones

Quincy Jones was born in Chicago in 1933 and started playing the trumpet at the age of twelve. He is the most nominated Grammy artist, with a total of 76, and has won 26 Grammy Awards (the second highest amount) and several Oscar nominations. During his fifty-year career, he has picked up hundreds of awards and accolades and has worked with many of the major influential musical artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.