{"id":29950,"date":"2026-06-28T13:59:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T13:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=29950"},"modified":"2026-06-28T13:59:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T13:59:23","slug":"american-music-legend-dies-at-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=29950","title":{"rendered":"American Music Legend Dies at 91"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"138\" data-end=\"180\">Quincy Jones wasn\u2019t just a music producer.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"182\" data-end=\"218\">He was the sound behind generations.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"220\" data-end=\"385\">From the smoky jazz clubs of his early career\u2026<br data-start=\"266\" data-end=\"269\" \/>to the global explosion of <em data-start=\"296\" data-end=\"306\">Thriller<\/em>\u2026<br data-start=\"307\" data-end=\"310\" \/>to shaping voices like Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra, and Aretha Franklin\u2026<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"387\" data-end=\"433\">He didn\u2019t follow music history. He <em data-start=\"422\" data-end=\"432\">wrote it<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"435\" data-end=\"543\">28 Grammy Awards.<br data-start=\"452\" data-end=\"455\" \/>Countless iconic records.<br data-start=\"480\" data-end=\"483\" \/>And a legacy that changed how the world hears music forever.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"545\" data-end=\"582\">But his real gift wasn\u2019t just talent.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"584\" data-end=\"598\">It was vision.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"600\" data-end=\"676\">He could hear what the world would become\u2026 before the world heard it itself.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"678\" data-end=\"729\">And now, at 91, his music remains louder than ever.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"731\" data-end=\"752\">Quincy Jones is gone.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"754\" data-end=\"788\">But his sound will never leave us.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h4hIHcVvnfU?si=QyI8K72jIWDGS0p6\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quincy Jones wasn\u2019t just a music producer. He was the sound behind generations. From the smoky jazz clubs of his early career\u2026to the global explosion of Thriller\u2026to shaping voices like Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra, and Aretha Franklin\u2026 He didn\u2019t follow music history. He wrote it. 28 Grammy Awards.Countless iconic records.And a legacy that changed how&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=29950\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;American Music Legend Dies at 91&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29952,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29950\/revisions\/29952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}