By The Huffington Post News Editors
Happy 80th birthday to music icon Quincy Jones!
Jones, whose friends call him “Q,” first fell in love with music when he was in elementary school and started playing the trumpet. As a teen he befriended the then-young pianist Ray Charles, and embarked on a path that “saved his life” and made him one of the world’s greatest musicians to date.
Jones has won more Grammy Awards than any other artist in history (he was nominated for 79 and won 27). He scored a myriad of films and TV themes, released dozens and dozens of records, founded Vibe magazine, and worked with Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis, Aretha Franklin and Amy Winehouse, among others.