Growing up in a poverty-stricken and crime-ridden neighborhood on the south side of Chicago, Quincy Jones escaped the rougher life by playing music. By his early teens, he was playing professionally in jazz clubs. During the next 40 years, he worked with every major musical talent in the industry. Working his way from the ghetto to Hollywood, where he was presented with eight Grammys in 1982 for arranging and producing Michael Jackson’s Thriller album, Jones learned to succeed through setbacks. Today, Jones has his own record label and a multi-media entertainment company. But he still remembers his roots. As he said when he received his Grammys, "This is when a person that doesn’t believe in a Higher Power has got to be a little bent, because there are too many things that came together for it just be an accident."

Quincy Jones is now Chief Executive Officer of Qwest Records and Quincy Jones Entertainment Los Angeles, CA