apparently suffering from liver cancer, Quincy Jones, the legendary musician, passed away earlier this month.
A death license from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health and obtained by TMZ revealed that the 28-time Grammy Award winner’s cause of death was an extreme form of cancer. According to the store, no other factors led to his death.
The 91-year-old, whose generation-spanning work shaped Michael Jackson’s guitar job and , included collaborations , with Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Diana Ross and the Weeknd, died Nov. 3 at his Bel-Air house. He was surrounded by his kids, relatives and close relatives, his writer, Arnold Robinson, said at the time. Therefore, no dying cause was revealed.
Robinson did not respond to the Los Angeles Times ‘ ask for assurance on Wednesday.
The Oscar-nominated artist and renowned audio maker was laid to rest Sunday during , a secret funeral , in Los Angeles, his family said. A larger, common monument is being planned, but no date has been announced.
In a gift to her papa,” Parks and Recreation” student Rashida Jones, one of his seven kids, said that Jones ‘ tradition is making “everyone he actually met feeling loved and seen”.
” I’ll lose his unconditional love, kisses, and tips,” he declared. Daddy, it is an pride to get your child. Your passion lives forever”, she , wrote , on Instagram.
Pancreatic cancer, known as the” silent killer”, is the fourth leading cause of cancer deaths and accounted for 8 % of cancer deaths this year, according to statistics from the , National Institutes of Health.
The aggressive cancer has been cited as the cause of death for several other luminaries, including” Ghost” and” Dirty Dancing” star Patrick Swayze, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin, astronaut Sally Ride, former Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, longtime” Jeopardy”! number Alex Trebek and talk-show network Jerry Springer.
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