Quincy Delight Jones is undoubtedly one of the greatest minds in the entire history of music and television. He plays a number of musical instruments and was the conductor and arranger for Frank Sinatra’s orchestra. The African-American legend has been the brain behind the music tracks for several films and has worked with countless numbers of top artists. He was also responsible for gathering multiple stars to perform the song We Are The World to help raise funds to support the victims of the 1985 Ethiopian famine.
Date of Birth: March 14, 1933
Zodiac Sign: Pisces
Quincy fell in love with music while he was in High School and it was there he met Ray Charles, who convinced him to pursue his love for the arts on a professional level. He later won a scholarship to the Berklee College of Music but he was unable to complete his education at this school as he got the opportunity to tour with Lionel Hampton’s band as a trumpeter and a conductor.
That was only the beginning for him as his fame kept rising and until he became a global figure thanks to his unequalled talents in entertainment and entrepreneurship. Keep scrolling as we take you through the large family of the most Grammy-nominated artist in history.
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Quincy Jones parents
Sarah Frances Jones (mother)
Date of Birth: July 31, 1903
Date of Death: January 22, 1999 (aged 95)
Zodiac Sign: Leo
She was a bank executive, apartment complex manager and a fine pianist who became ill while her famous son was still young. She suffered from schizophrenia and was admitted to a mental hospital in 1941. Quincy’s dad could not stand this so he had to file for a divorce and later remarried.
Quincy Delightt Jones, Sr. (father)
Date of Birth: August 31, 1985
Month of Death: July 1971 (aged 75)
Zodiac Sign: Virgo
He was a semi-professional baseball player and carpenter. After Sarah was institutionalized, he paired up with their then-neighbor named Elvera but Quincy and his brother Lloyd never bonded well with her. Quincy Snr. moved to Bremerton with his kids and a few weeks later, Elvera and her three children from her previous marriage came to join them.
Elvera with son Richard
Quincy Jones siblings
Lloyd Jones (younger brother from same parents)
Lloyd Jones (on photo) and son Marlon
Date of birth: July 27, 1934
Date of death: July 13, 1998 (aged 63)
Zodiac Sign: Leo
He is the immediate younger brother to the Qwest Productions creator. Lloyd was broadcast engineer. He was married to Cynthia “Gloria” Jones and had a son Marlon Jones. He died of cancer.
Quincy had three step-siblings after his father remarried Elvera as she had them from her previous marriage.
Waymond Miller (deceased step-brother)
Theresa Frank (step-sister)
Quincy Jones’ with step-sister Theresa Frank and her daughters
Catherine Conroy (step-sister)
Theresa Frank and Catherine Conroy
Jeanette Christmas (nee Jones) (paternal half-sister)
Date of Birth: January 16, 1947
Date of Death: October 31, 2011 (aged 64)
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn
She was the first daughter Elvera had with Quincy Snr.
Margie Jones (Mardra Jay) (paternal half-sister)
Mardra Jay with husband
Margie is another half-sibling from Papa Jones’ second marriage.
Richard A. Jones (paternal half-brother)
Year of Birth: 1950
He is an attorney and a United States Judge in Seattle, Washington. He was named judge of the year 2004 by the King County and Washington State Bar associations. Richard is married to Leslie Jones, a diversity program manager for Sound Transit.
(L-R) Waymond Miller, Theresa Frank, Quincy Jones, Lloyd Jones, Mardra (Margie) Jay, Jeanette Christmas and Richard Jones. Seated Elvera Jones
Quincy Jones wife
Jeri Jones (nee Caldwell) (former spouse)
Duration of Marriage: 1957 – 1966 (9 years)
Jeri was the first wife to the I Can’t Stop Loving You crooner and they had been friends since high school. She is the mother to Jones’ eldest child Jolie but their high school love could last only about a decade before they had to part ways.
Ulla Agneta Jones (nee Andesong) (former spouse)
Duration of Marriage: 1967 – 1974 (7 years)
Date of Birth: June 18, 1946
Zodiac Sign: Gemini
She is a singer, actress and former high fashion model that appeared on several magazine covers in the 1960s. Ulla was discovered at 15 in Stockholm, got signed immediately with the Ford Modelling Agency and was sent to Paris to learn the modelling business.
In 1966, Agneta met Jones when she was 19 at a party in honor of Frank Sinatra. A whirlwind romance followed and she left her apartment n Manhattan to move in with the star in his California home. They were married within a year and she had to retire from her modelling career to care for her children.
Ulla with kids Martina Jones and Quincy Jones III
Quincy on the other hand kept rising and was constantly on tour or in one social event or the other. This caused frictions in their union and Ulla’s health issues didn’t make it any easier. Agneta took the children and left for Sweden (where she remains today) but was not legally separated from Jones until 1974.
Peggy Lipton (former spouse)
Duration of Marriage: 1974 – 1990 (16 years)
Date of Birth: August 30, 1946
Date of Death: May 11, 2019 (age 72)
Zodiac Sign: Virgo
Peggy and Quincy had been together even before his divorce with Ulla. In 1974, the exceptional music man was diagnosed with brain tumor and was gravely ill; no one thought he was going to survive it so he decided to marry Lipton for the purpose of legal provisions for the little daughter they had already. First, he had to be legally separated from Ulla so he reached out to her and they agreed to finalize the divorce and that she got a one-time settlement.
That same year, Quincy married his long-time partner Peggy. They had met in 1969 in the Bahamas on a sailboat chartered by a mutual friend. Of all his wives, Jones was married to Peggy for almost two decades but it had to end in a divorce in 1990 after they were parents already to two young girls.
Quincy and Peggy Lipton with daughters Kidada and Rashida Jones
Peggy is the actress who became an overnight success through her most successful role as Julie Barnes in The Mod Squad (1968 – 1973). She died from cancer.
Carol Reynolds (former partner)
(L-R) Quincy, Rachel and Carol Reynolds
The music genius had a brief relationship with her and it resulted in his sixth child.
Nastassja Kinski (former partner)
Duration of Relationship: 1991 – 1995 (4 years)
Date of Birth: January 24, 1961
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius
The Stay As You Are (1978) actress has appeared in more than 60 films in Europe and America. She was married to Egyptian filmmaker Ibrahim Moussa with whom she has two children, Aljosha (born 1984) and Sonja (born 1986). After her marriage of 8 years was dissolved in 1992, she moved in with Jones and within a year, had a child for him.
Quincy Jones 7 children: 6 daughters and 1 son
Jolie Jones Levine (daughter with Jeri Caldwell)
Date of Birth: October 4, 1954
Zodiac Sign: Libra
She is Quincy’s first child and the only child he had with his first wife. Jolie played in movie Panic in Echo Park (1977) and she has been married to Levine and had 2 sons Donovan and Sunny. She is also a painter.
Martina Jones (daughter with Ulla Jones)
Martina and her brother Quincy III grew up in Sweden with their mother after their parents separated. She studied dance in her late teens when she returned to the United States to live with her father. Tina is now a Swedish American model.
Quincy Jones III (son with Ulla Jones)
Date of Birth: December 23, 1968
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn
He is the only son to the legendary composer and is now a music artist and producer like his dad. He has two children, Nea and Quincy Renzo Delight IV with ex-wife Koa Jones.
Kidada Ann Jones (daughter with Peggy Lipton)
Date of Birth: March 22, 1974
Zodiac Sign: Aries
Her name means ‘little sister’ in Swahili and she is the music mogul’s first child with his third wife. Kidada is now a model, actress and fashion designer who works with Walt Disney Company where she has a line known as Kidada for Disney Couture. She was married to Jeffrey Nash for three years and is yet to be a mother.
Rashida Jones (daughter with Peggy Lipton)
Date of Birth: February 25, 1976
Zodiac Sign: Pisces
Rashida is known majorly as the daughter of the veteran singer and is also known for playing Ann Perkins on the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation (2009 – 2015). In February 2003, the Judaism practitioner was engaged to music producer Mark Ronson but their relationship ended within a year.
She was 10 when her parents separated and she continued to live with Peggy while Kindada moved in with Jones. Till date, she says she’s best friends with her mother and they are both partners in crime.
Rachel Jones (daughter with Carol Reynolds)
Date of Birth: July 23
Zodiac Sign: Leo
Reynolds and Jones had a brief affair which resulted in the birth of his daughter Rachel. She is married now and has 2 kids. She is a veterinarian.
Kenya Kinski-Jones (daughter with Nastassja Kinski)
Date of Birth: February 9, 1993
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius
She is Quincy’s youngest child and was born while he was in a relationship with German actress Kinski. Kenya is now a full-time professional model and animal rights activist under the name Kenya Kinski-Jones.
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