Quincy Jones RIP

Jones in 2012, photo by Prphotos

Birth Name: Quincy Delight Jones, Jr.

Date of Birth: March 14, 1933

Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

Date of Death: November 3, 2024

Place of Death: Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Ethnicity: African-American, with some English, Scottish, and Welsh

Quincy Jones was an American music, film, and television producer, instrumentalist, conductor, arranger, composer, songwriter, musician, magazine founder, actor, entertainment company executive, and humanitarian.

He was the son of Sarah Frances (Wells) and Quincy Delight/Delightt Jones, a semi-pro baseball player. He had seven children; a daughter with his former wife, Jeri Caldwell; two children with his former wife, Swedish actress Ulla Andersson; a daughter with his former partner, Carol Reynolds; two children, actresses Kidada Jones and Rashida Jones, with his former wife, actress and model Peggy Lipton; and a daughter, model Kenya Kinski-Jones, with his former partner, German actress and model Nastassja Kinski.

Quincy was of African-American (West African/Central African) ancestry, with some English, Scottish, and Welsh, heritage.

Quincy’s paternal grandfather was named Caesar Jones. Caesar was born in South Carolina.

Quincy’s paternal grandmother was named Susannah/Susanna Burgess (the daughter of West Burgess and Adele, or of Osborne Burgess and Elizabeth). Susannah was born in South Carolina.

Quincy’s maternal grandfather was Love Adam Wells (the son of Nelson Wells and Sarah Campbell). Love was born in Mississippi.

Quincy’s maternal grandmother was Mary Belle Lanier (the daughter of James Balance Lanier and Cordelia Dickson). Mary Belle was born in Mississippi. James was white, and had mostly English, as well as Scottish and Welsh, ancestry; he was the son of Needham Burch Lanier and Eliza/Elizabeth Ann Warnock or Adams. Cordelia was the daughter of Henry Dickson and Minerva.

A DNA test whose results were displayed on the show African American Lives (2006) stated that Quincy’s genetic ancestry was:

*66% Sub-Saharan African
*34% European

In his 2009 book about the show, In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. wrote that Quincy’s African DNA matched the Tikar people of Cameroon, the Sukuma people of Tanzania, the Tonga people of Mozambique, and the Fang people of Equatorial Guinea.

Source: Genealogy of Quincy Jones – https://www.geni.com