Quincy Jones III
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Quincy Delightt Jones III (born December 23, 1968) (also known as QD3 and Snoopy) is a British
United Kingdom
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-born Swedish
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

/African-American
African American
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 composer, music producer, film producer, and author. He was born in Wimbledon
Wimbledon, London
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, London
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, the son of American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 music producer Quincy Jones
Quincy Jones
Quincy Delightt Jones, Jr. is an American record producer and musician. A conductor, musical arranger, film composer, television producer, and trumpeter. His career spans five decades in the entertainment industry and a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend...

 and Swedish model Ulla Andersson
Ulla Andersson
Ulla Agneta Jones née Andersson, known professionally as Ulla Andersson and as Ulla Jones is a former high fashion model, actress, singer and songwriter who appeared on numerous magazine covers during the 1960s, before she retired from the Ford Modelling Agency, and has been married to Quincy Jones...

.

Business ventures

Quincy Jones III is the found of QD3 Entertainment, which produced a series of documentaries called Beef which explores violence and feuds within hip hop culture. Jones has also made prominent success as a hip hop DJ
Disc jockey
A disc jockey, also known as DJ, is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Originally, "disc" referred to phonograph records, not the later Compact Discs. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the medium.There are several types of disc jockeys...

 and released an album in 1991 called Soundlab.

Solo albums

  • 1991: Soundlab (Qwest
    Qwest Records
    Qwest Records is the American record label started by Quincy Jones in 1980 as a joint venture with Warner Bros. Records, and owned byWarner Music Group. although Quincy was still under contract with A&M records through 1981. George Benson's 1980 Give Me the Night LP was the first release on Qwest,...

    /Reprise
    Reprise Records
    Reprise Records is an American record label, founded in 1960 by Frank Sinatra. It is owned by Warner Music Group, and operated through Warner Bros. Records.-Beginnings:...

    /Warner Bros. Records
    Warner Bros. Records
    Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an American record label. It was the foundation label of the present-day Warner Music Group, and now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of that corporation. It maintains a close relationship with its former parent, Warner Bros. Pictures, although the two companies...

     26574) featuring Justin Warfield
    Justin Warfield
    Justin Warfield is a musician and hip hop emcee of African American and Jewish Russian-Romanian maternal parentage, who is currently half of the darkwave duo She Wants Revenge...


Films and documentaries

  • 1987: Stockholmsnatt
    Stockholmsnatt
    Stockholmsnatt is a 1987 Swedish drama film directed by Staffan Hildebrand. The film is loosely based on a true story about Paolo Roberto, later a professional boxer and TV presenter. Because of his Italian roots, Paolo is dealing with an identity crisis...

    as Quincy. Also narrating.
  • 2006: Beef: The Series
    Beef: The Series
    Beef: is a television series that airs on Black Entertainment Television . The show premiered on October 4, 2006, and aired six episodes for the first season, with the last original episode airing on November 8, 2006...

    (QD3 Entertainment)
    • Beef (October 4, 2006)
    • Beef II
      Beef II
      Beef II is a sequel to the 2003 documentary Beef, which continued to document the history of rivalries in hip-hop and rap music...

      (October 11, 2006)
    • Beef III (October 16, 2006)
    • Beef IV
      Beef IV
      Beef IV is the fourth installment of the Beef series. It is a documentary about Hip hop rivalries and beefs . It was released on DVD on September 18, 2007. It was directed by Peter Alton and lasts approximately 108 minutes. It was narrated by Charlie Murphy...

      (October 25, 2006)
    • Beef V (November 1, 2006)
    • Beef VI (November 8, 2006)
      • Beef: Behind the Bullet
  • 2010: Tupac: Thug Angel (QD3 Entertainment)

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