Jones named advisor for Games
(BOCOG)
Updated: 2006-10-24 11:07
BOCOG Executive Vice
President Liu Jingmin awarded Quincy Jones the certificate of appointment
at a ceremony in Beijing October 23,2006. Quincy Jones, an American music
impresario, record producer, film composer and 26 time-Grammy Awards
winner was appointed culture and art consultant for the Beijing Olympic
Games.[BOCOG] |
Quincy Jones, well-known American music impresario, record producer, film
composer and 26 time-Grammy Awards winner was appointed culture and art
consultant for the Beijing Olympic Games.
On behalf of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX
Olympiad (BOCOG), BOCOG Executive Vice President Liu Jingmin awarded Jones the
certificate of appointment at a ceremony in Beijing on Monday.
In a musical career that has spanned six decades, Quincy Jones, born in 1933,
has earned his reputation as a renaissance man of American music. He has
distinguished himself as a bandleader, a songwriter, a producer, an arranger, a
film composer, and a record label executive, and outside of music, he's also
written books, produced major motion pictures, and helped create television
series.
With his famous song of "We are the world," for which Jones collaborated with
45 star musicians, over 500 million USD was donated to African famine sufferers
in 1985.
In May this year, during his first visit to China, Jones.expressed his
willingness to o compose for the Beijing Olympics in an effort to join the
preparatory work for the Games.
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