Due to the extensive quantity of work Quincy Jones has done for the music industry, he has the honorable distinction of being called a living legend.
This year marked the famous music producer’s 90th birthday. Recently, information about him needing an urgent hospital visit surfaced.
To find out more about what transpired, continue reading.
Following a medical emergency that sent him to the hospital, Quincy Jones has been discharged. Jones’ agent claims that the 90-year-old music producer experienced a negative response to some meal and dialed 911 for assistance out of caution.
To handle the problem, paramedics arrived at Jones’ Los Angeles residence early on Saturday.
Jones was then taken to the hospital, where he was examined by medical professionals right away to make sure everything was alright. Soon after, he received the all-clear from medical professionals and left the hospital.
According to his spokesman, the seasoned music producer never lost consciousness during the incident and was in “great spirits” the entire time.
Jones celebrated his 90th birthday in March of this year. Many artists from all generations have praised him. “He is a blueprint of this industry!” singer and actress Jennifer Hudson said of the prolific producer, with Ludacris agreeing, “Everyone in the music industry looks up to Quincy Jones. It’s that simple.”
Chaka Khan declared the producer “the best that there ever was in his field.”
“Everybody who ever is around Quincy Jones says the same thing, that there’s a light about him,” Oprah Winfrey said in an interview back in 1996, adding how he “stole my heart when we did The Color Purple.”
Actress Rashida Jones, the producer’s daughter, also gushes about what a fantastic father he is, adding, “He is very supportive of anything that I decided to do.”
As for his own legacy, the humble producer does not think of it much. In 1990 he said he doesn’t “have a clue” what that will be but that he was “just going to keep on doing my thing and hope that it will mean something to somebody.”
Our best wishes for good health are being sent to music producer Quincy Jones. Spread the word about this article so that others will be aware of Quincy’s health update and may they also pray for him.