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Another music legend and an icon in the music industry is Quincy Jones. With a career spanning almost six decades in the entertainment industry, it is no surprise that he managed to secure 80 Grammy Award nominations, 28 Grammy awards, and one Grammy Legend Award back in 1992. To a certain degree, he is truly a legendary music artist.

Jones rose to fame during the 1950s, first working as a jazz conductor and arranger before going on to work on film scores and pop music. Besides being a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, composer, arranger, and record producer, he is also a film and television producer. One of the other equally iconic stars he produced was the King of Pop himself, Michael Jackson. With his fame and contribution to the music world, he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, continuously receiving credits until today. In 2020, he is worth a whopping amount of $500 million, which he earned throughout his entire career in the industry.