Our 2022 Founders Award honored the legendary Quincy Jones!

Celebrating more than 60 years performing and being involved in music, Quincy Jones’ creative magic began with the music of the post-swing era and continues through today’s high-technology, international multi-media hybrids. His career has encompassed the roles of composer, record producer, artist, film producer, arranger, conductor, instrumentalist, TV producer, record company executive, magazine founder, multi-media entrepreneur and humanitarian.

The laurels, awards and accolades have been innumerable, including being one of only a handful of EGOTS — winners of the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards.

Quincy is the all-time most nominated Grammy artist with a total of 80 Grammy nominations and 28 awards as well as the Grammy Living Legend Award. He has also won the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, N.A.R.A.S.’ prestigious Trustees’ Award. His international honors have ranged from France’s Commandeur de la Legion d’ Honneur, to the Royal Swedish Academy of Music’s coveted Polar Music Prize, to Italy’s Rudolph Valentino Award. He was named as a Kennedy Center Honoree in 2001 for his contributions to the cultural fabric of the United States of America; and was bestowed the National Medal of Arts, our nation’s highest artistic honor in 2010.