The music was superbly crafted pop, produced by Quincy Jones and often written by Jackson himself.
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Producer Quincy Jones, meanwhile, said her voice "was the heartbeat and soundtrack of a decade".
Other celebrity witnesses on the list are Sharon Osbourne, Quincy Jones, Spike Lee, Ray Parker Jr.
Smith, music legend Quincy Jones and Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton were among the stars introducing acts.
She received the National Global Down Syndrome Foundation's Quincy Jones Exceptional Advocacy Award in 2013 and is now a Global Ambassador.
Since then, Mr. Thielemans has collaborated with a wide range of jazz superstars, from Bill Evans to Quincy Jones.
He also met Quincy Jones and Streisand, both of whom became longtime friends, when he was in his 20s.
Going solo with Quincy Jones producing, as he did in 1979, was the right move, Gamble and Huff said.
Confirmed co-hosts include Robert DeNiro, Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman and Quincy Jones.
She's the goddaughter of two musical legends, Quincy Jones and Dinah Washington.
It is also reported that stars such as singer Diana Ross, director Spike Lee and music producer Quincy Jones may take the stand.
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This includes working with or contributing to The National Black Arts Festival, the Quincy Jones Listen Up Foundation and the Jazz Foundation of America.
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The Belgian-born Thielemans has played with Benny Goodman, Charlie Parker, Paul Simon, Miles Davis, Milt Jackson, Billy Joel, Ella Fitzgerald, Quincy Jones and many others.
Quincy Jones eventually signed The Winans to his Quest Records label.
Discovered by Quincy Jones back in 1963 at the Nortre Dame Jazz Festival, James has recorded more than two dozen jazz albums as a solo artist.
She has also presented a variety of programmes on radio and television including The Quincy Jones Story, The Best of Jazz, Open Forum and The Holiday Programme.
Johnny Depp, Sting, Ne-Yo, Quincy Jones and Patti Smith also attended the event at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, which was held in honour of Houston.
All this and charitable work through his Quincy Jones Foundation.
Quincy Jones. (Applause.) The 2010 National Medal of Arts to Quincy Jones for his extraordinary contributions to American music as a musician, composer, record producer, and arranger.
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The painting was then acquired in 1951 by a Los Angeles property developer, Sidney Brody, and his wife, and hung in their modernist home designed by A. Quincy Jones.
No topic was off-limits when Conan O'Brien, Tyra Banks, Shaquille O'Neal, Seth MacFarlane, Jack Dorsey, Quincy Jones and Russell Brand discussed friendship, insecurities, success, worries, life, death and nearly everything in between.
She dabbled in Las Vegas schmaltz, made an ambitious album with Quincy Jones and came bouncing back with the assertive "She Works Hard for the Money" at the dawn of the MTV era.
In the arts, Gangel has interviewed rock legends Eric Clapton and Keith Richards as well as ballet star Mikhail Baryshnikov, cellist Yo Yo Ma, Arthur Miller, George Lucas, Quincy Jones, and the legendary songwriter Burt Bacharach.
Ramone's collaboration credits are a Who's Who of the music industry: Burt Bacharach, Bono, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, Quincy Jones, Madonna, Paul McCartney, Paul Simon and Frank Sinatra, to name a few.
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Gates began with the television program, "African American Lives, " back in 2006 when he used research and DNA testing to trace the ancestry of such prominent African Americans as Oprah Winfrey and Quincy Jones.
Ramone's collaboration credits are a Who's Who of the music industry: Burt Bacharach, Bono, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, Quincy Jones, Madonna, Paul McCartney, Paul Simon, Frank Sinatra and Stevie Wonder, to name a few.
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Summer is among this year's eight inductees, which also include rockers Heart and Rush, singer-songwriter Randy Newman, rap group Public Enemy and bluesman Albert King, as well as Lou Adler and Quincy Jones, this year's Ahmet Ertegun lifetime achievement honorees.
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