Quincy Jones, the multi-platinum and multi-award-winning legendary producer, has been rushed to the hospital in what his representatives are calling a “medical emergency.”
Radar Online was one of the first outlets to break the story, and it confirmed that the 90-year-old multi-hyphenate was rushed to the emergency room on Saturday (June 18).
Despite early speculation, however, Jones’ representatives made clear that he was taken to a Los Angeles area hospital because he’d had a bad reaction to some food he’d eaten the night before. Getting rushed to the hospital, they said, was a precautionary measure due to the producer’s advanced age.
What’s more, the producer remained in “good spirits” throughout the precautionary measure, and he was released from the hospital once doctors gave him the all-clear. Jones’s vital signs are stable and there’s no concern about the after-effects on his overall health.
Quincy Jones is a 28-time Grammy-winning producer and one of the most influential figures in the music industry. https://t.co/S3M8UgoZzS
— Radar Online (@radar_online) June 18, 2023
Quincy Jones has won nearly 30 Grammys throughout his seven-decades-long recording career and worked a wide sundry of artists from Frank Sinatra to Michael Jackson. He’s had 80 Grammy nominations throughout his career, and this record was only recently broken by JAY-Z in 2021, who at that point had received a total of 83 nominations.
Despite securing his place in musical history, Timbaland recently seemed to take a shot at Quincy Jones — and promptly got dragged for filth for his trouble.
Timbaland got on the wrong side of folks back in January 2022 when he compared The Weeknd’s new album Dawn FM to Michael Jackson’s Thriller. After the treatment he received over his comments, one would think Timbo would have then kept his thoughts to himself — but he managed to get people mad again just days later.
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