Quincy Jones III

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Quincy Delight Jones III (aka QD3 aka Snoopy) is a Swedish-American composer, music producer, film producer and author.

1 Personal life
2 Career
3 Trivia
4 See also
5 External links
6 Bibliography

[edit] Personal life

Born in 1968 to American music legend Quincy Jones and Swedish top model Ulla Andersson, Quincy III moved to Sweden at the age of 4 with his mother and older sister Martina Jones.

Quincy first lived in Kungsholmen before moving to a public housing area located in the south of Stockholm. He has described his upbringing as difficult. The break up of his parents' marriage and poor financial investments on the part of his mother were causes of instability. He rarely saw his father and witnessed his mother's struggle with substance abuse.

[edit] Career

While in his early teens, Quincy discovered breakdancing. Quincy is regarded as one of the pioneers of the Swedish hip hop scene. He took the pseudonym Snoopy and had, together with Karl Dyall, a hit in 1986 with the rap song "Next Time". The song was from the soundtrack to the extremely popular movie Stockholmsnatt in which Quincy played the one of the lead characters. By the age of 16, he had earned his first gold record.

When he was seventeen-years old, Quincy decided to relocate to the United States. There, he briefly attended his father's alma mater, the Berklee School of Music. However, as the school did not offer what Quincy was looking for musically so he dropped out. He moved to the Bronx, where he lived with his friend T La Rock. Quincy practiced and perfected his craft at Power Play Studios with some of hip hop's future legends: Rakim and KRS-One.

Within 7 years he had established himself as a respected producer and switched pseudonym to QD3. He created tracks for many artists, including LL Cool J, Too Short, Ice Cube and Tupac Shakur. He has also scored films and television shows, including The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Menace II Society.

QD3 has also produced a number of successful hip-hop documentary films such as Thug Angel, The Freshest Kids, Beef and Beef II.

[edit] Trivia

QD3 and Casey Suchan produced the 2002 documentary film Thug Angel about Tupac Shakur.
The first letter his parents received after he was born came with a $5000.00 bond from family friend Frank Sinatra. The letter read; "Dear Quincy Delight Jones III, WELCOME! And let Uncle Frank start your college fund with the hope that you will find friendship, knowledge, and happiness in what will no doubt be a far better world. Love, Francis."
Received his first Emmy nomination in 1999 for the Eddie Murphy show The PJ's.
One of his younger sisters is actress and recording artist Rashida Jones.
QD3 recorded and co-produced the Grammy winning album Back on the Block with his father.
QD3 lost the master of one of the most popular Tupac Shakur songs, Soon As I Get Home. This means it couldn't be remixed.