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Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was an American record producer, composer, arranger, conductor, trumpeter, and bandleader. Over the course of his seven-decade career, he received many accolades including 28 Grammy Awards, [1] a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Tony Award as well as nominations for seven Academy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards.
Gerald Wexler (January 10, 1917 – August 15, 2008) was a music journalist turned music producer, and was a major influence on American popular music from the 1950s through the 1980s.
Larry Dvoskin is an American musician, songwriter, arranger, producer, professor and entrepreneur. He is best known in the industry as the songwriting partner of The Beach Boys' Al Jardine . [ 1 ] The founder of Do What You Love Media, Miracle Music Inc and Cool Guy Music Inc.
After her death, Selena’s music gained even more popularity and she became the first Latin artist to debut on the Billboard 200 with her posthumous crossover album, Dreaming of You.
The recorded music division of its Tisch School of the Arts, is named after him: the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. Davis was portrayed by Oscar nominated actor, Stanley Tucci, in Sony Pictures's Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody – a biopic about the life and music of Houston. Davis also served as a producer on the film. [39]
In 2019, American music magazine Billboard began publishing a list of the greatest pop star of every year since 1981, with essay tributes for each artist. [1] The first year of 1981 was chosen as "the year that forever changed modern stardom", with the premiere of MTV which established music videos as an essential element for popular music iconicity. [1]
2hollis's father is musician John Herndon (also known as A Grape Dope), drummer of the band Tortoise, and his mother is Kathryn Frazier, who founded Biz 3, Owsla and also managed the popular electronic artist Skrillex. [7] She is now a life coach, [8] reiki master, and lecturer in the Herb Alpert School of Music at UCLA.
He is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in pop music history [2] [3] and one of the most successful producers of the 1960s. [ 4 ] : 1 Born in the Bronx , Spector moved to Los Angeles as a teenager and began his career in 1958, as a founding member of The Teddy Bears , for whom he penned, " To Know Him Is to Love Him ", a U ...