QUINCY JONES NAMED CHAIRMAN OF AAMAS BOARD OF GOVERNORS
Music Legend to also Executive Produce AAMAS Inaugural Event in Hainan, China on March 31, 2012
SINGAPORE / LOS ANGELES, CA (November 21, 2011) – The Asia Academy of Music Arts & Sciences, announced today that multi-Grammy winner and music industry legend Quincy Jones has been named Chairman of the Asia Academy of Music Arts & Sciences (AAMAS). In addition, Jones will serve as Executive Producer of “Come Together,” the inaugural AAMAS Entertainment Show that will be taped live in Hainan, China at the MGM Grand Sanya on March 31, 2012 and broadcast throughout Asia in April.
“The music and talents of Quincy Jones have defined multiple generations of artists and fans around the world,” said Robert Farina, co-founder of AAMAS. “His leadership and counsel as Chairman of our Board of Governors will be invaluable and we are honored by his commitment and passion to the growth and expansion of the music industry throughout Asia.”
The Beverly Hills based management company ROAR represents both Quincy Jones and AAMAS, introduced the parties and advised on the collaboration.
Commented Jones, "I am honored to join the Board of Governors of the AsiaAcademy of Music Arts & Sciences as its Chairman and to serve as Executive Producer of the inaugural 'Come Together' Entertainment Show in Hainan. Throughout my career I have always believed that music knows no cultural or geographic boundaries and can bring people together as one, and I sincerely hope that I can contribute to expanding the world's knowledge and appreciation of the great musical legacy and talents that exists in Asia."
As Chairman of the AAMAS Board of Governors, Jones will work with the organization’s previously named Board Members: Peter Casey (Australia), Senn V. Moses (Co- Founder of AAMAS), Edmund Ooi Boon Hock (Co-Founder of AAMAS), Jeremy Monteiro (Singapore), Kolleen Park (South Korea), and Bernie Cahill (United States).
The AAMAS Board of Governors will be representative of the AAMAS membership base. The eventual 22 member board will represent the thinking and issues of their respective geographic territories, bringing unique perspectives together for the betterment of the industry across the region. Their role will focus on music industry issues and opportunities that most preoccupy the attention of our membership as well as always bringing innovation to Asia music.
Officially launched in June of this year, the Asia Academy of Music Arts & Sciences is Asia’s first-ever peer driven Academy established to honor and award excellence in the arts and sciences of music, and to foster collaboration between all sectors of the music industry across Asia and the world.
“Come Together” is the first-of-its-kind musical entertainment show schedule for March 31, 2012. It will bring together the best talent from different countries in Asia to perform together to create a historic night of entertainment.
Headquartered in Singapore, AAMAS will operate across an expansive geography throughout Asia. AAMAS will interact, develop membership, and represent the interests of music industry professionals and students who practice or study in Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Macau, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, Taiwan, and Vietnam.
For more information regarding AAMAS and to inquire about membership, please visit: www.asiaacademyofmusic.com
ABOUT QUINCY JONES
Named by Time Magazine as one of the six most influential Jazz artists of the 20th Century, Quincy Jones is an impresario in the broadest and most creative sense of the word. Over six-decades Jones’ career has encompassed the roles of composer, record producer, artist, film producer, arranger, conductor, instrumentalist, TV producer, record company executive, television station owner, magazine founder, multi-media entrepreneur and humanitarian. Among the multitude of awards that he has received for his contributions are an Emmy Award, seven Academy Award nominations, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, 27 Grammy Awards, and is the all-time most nominated Grammy artist with a total of 79 nominations. He is the recipient of the Republic of France’s Commandeur de la Legion d’ Honneur, and in 2001 he was inducted as a “Kennedy Center Honoree,” the United States’ most prestigious artistic award, for his lifetime contributions to the culture of the country. He was recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts as a Jazz Master - the nation’s highest jazz honor, and was most recently bestowed the National Medal of Arts, our nation’s highest artistic honor.
In 2001, Quincy Jones added the title “Best Selling Author” to his list of accomplishments when his autobiography “Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones” entered the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Wall Street Journal Best-Sellers lists. Released by Doubleday Publishing, the critically acclaimed biography retells Jones’ life story from his days as an impoverished youth on the Southside of Chicago through a massively impressive career in music, film and television where he worked beside legends such as Billie Holiday, Ray Charles, Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald and Michael Jackson, among many others. In conjunction with the autobiography, Rhino Records released a 4-cd boxed set of Jones’ music, spanning his more than 5 decade career in the music business, entitled “Q: The Musical Biography of Quincy Jones.” In 2008, he released the coffee-table book “The Complete Quincy Jones: My Journey and Passions.”
Jones recent projects include the release of Soul Bossa Nostra, an album featuring some of today’s biggest recording artists and producers such as Usher, Ludacris, Akon, Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Hudson, Mary J. Blige, T-Pain, Robin Thicke, LL Cool J, John Legend, Snoop Dogg, Wyclef Jean, Q-Tip, Talib Kweli, Three 6 Mafia, David Banner, Bebe Winans, Mervyn Warren, Jermaine Dupri, DJ Paul, and Scott Storch, among others, who have joined together to celebrate the music of the multi-Grammy winning producer, composer and arranger by recording contemporary versions of popular recordings from his massive catalog; the book “Q on Producing” which recounts his six-decade long career working in the recording studio with music icons such as Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra and Michael Jackson, among many others; a duets album with Stevie Wonder and Tony Bennett; as well as multiple projects for film and television.
A longtime humanitarian and activist, in 1999 Quincy Jones joined Bono and Bob Geldof during a meeting with Pope John Paul II as a part of the Jubilee 2000 delegation to end third world debt. The delegation’s visit resulted in $27 billion in third world debt being relieved. Through his Project Q Foundation, a joint initiative with the Harvard School of Public Health, Jones is actively working with NGO’s such as UNICEF, the Clinton Hunter Development Initiative and the Inter-American Development Bank, among others, to improve the health and well-being of millions of children in developing countries such as Rwanda, South Africa and Asia.
Jones is also the founder of the Quincy Jones Music Consortium, a cooperative of musicians, music and arts educators, corporations, foundations and philanthropists tasked with developing an innovative curriculum to be implemented in America’s schools that explores, celebrates and preserves the history of American Popular Music so that music education can be an ongoing part of the lives of the children of the United States.
ABOUT AAMAS
The Asia Academy of Music Arts & Sciences is a first of its kind, peer-driven academy of music professionals and students who contribute to the Asia music industry, either commercially or academically. Headquartered in Singapore, AAMAS operates across all of Asia and interact with the music industry on a global basis.
ABOUT ROAR
ROAR is a full-service management company providing clients with a comprehensive solution for maximizing their careers and brands across the spectrum of industries they care about most - music, film, television, new media, licensing and retail. Headquartered in Beverly Hills, and founded by William Ward, Jay Froberg, Greg Suess and Bernie Cahill, ROAR employs a team of top industry executives with varying backgrounds, including talent and music management, brand management, licensing and retail, film and television production, new media, film finance, business affairs and advertising. For more information on ROAR, please contact Liz Norris (media@roar.la) at 310.424.7800.
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