Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933) also known as Q, is an American record producer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, composer, arranger, and film and television producer. His career spans over 60 years in the entertainment industry with a record 80 Grammy Award nominations, 28 Grammys, and a Grammy Legend Award in 1992.
Famed producer Quincy Jones was born in Chicago, Illinois and reared in Bremerton, Washington, where he studied the trumpet and worked locally with the then-unknown pianist-singer Ray Charles. In the early 1950s Jones studied briefly at the prestigious Schillinger House (now Berklee College of Music) in Boston. A multifaceted jazz and pop figure, his career began when he played trumpet and arranged for Lionel Hampton (1951-1953). 
After returning to New York in 1961, Jones became an A&R director for Mercury Records. In 1964 he was named a vice president at Mercury, thereby becoming one of the first African Americans to hold a top executive position at a major American
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record label. He composed and arranged for Count Basie, Dinah Washington and Sarah Vaughan and produced his own increasingly pop-oriented records and composed music for several films, including The Pawnbroker (1964), In the Heat of the Night (1967), and In Cold Blood (1967), eventually producing over 50 scores and serving as a trailblazing African American musician in the Hollywood arena.
record label. He composed and arranged for Count Basie, Dinah Washington and Sarah Vaughan and produced his own increasingly pop-oriented records and composed music for several films, including The Pawnbroker (1964), In the Heat of the Night (1967), and In Cold Blood (1967), eventually producing over 50 scores and serving as a trailblazing African American musician in the Hollywood arena. 
Throughout the years, Jones worked with a “who’s who” of figures from all fields of popular music. He was nominated for more than 75 Grammy Awards (winning more than 25) and seven Academy Awards and received an Emmy Award for the theme music he wrote for the television miniseries Roots (1977). Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones was published in 2001. He was named one of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century by Time magazine. In 2013 Jones was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In August 2016, he and his music were featured at the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, London. The documentary Quincy (2018) chronicled his life and career and was directed by his daughter, actress and screenwriter Rashida Jones, and filmmaker Alan Hicks.
Jones has been married three times. His first marriage was to Jeri Caldwell from 1957 to 1966; they had one daughter together named Jolie. Jones was then married to Ulla Andersson, with whom he shares a son, Quincy, and a daughter, Martina, from 1967 to 1974. Jones' final marriage was to actress Peggy Lipton. The pair were married from 1974 to 1990, and they have two daughters, Rashida and Kidada. He also has two daughters from other relationships.
(Edited mainly from biography.com and Britannica.com)