Stevie Wonder, Oprah Winfrey, Paul McCartney and more pay tribute to Quincy Jones
Music and film stars celebrate late entertainment icon, with Wonder saying ‘Quincy should remembered as one of God’s greatest gifts to the world’
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Stars including Will Smith, Oprah Winfrey and Stevie Wonder have paid tribute to Quincy Jones, who died this week aged 91.
Following a career as a producer, multi-instrumentalist, conductor as well as a film producer, in 1990 Jones produced the sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, which gave Smith his first ever acting role. Jones brokered the casting in an impromptu audition by Smith – then known purely as a rapper – to NBC executive Brandon Tartikoff at a party at Jones’s home, with a contract drawn up that night.
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