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Our 2022 Founders Award honored the legendary Quincy Jones!
With a career spanning more than 60 years, Quincy is an impresario in the broadest and most creative sense of the word. A local legend who's deeply influenced Seattle's music + Black communities, his support of the next generation is unmatched, inspiring creators across genres and helping bring out their best work — exactly the kind of person Founders Award was created to celebrate.
A LOOK BACK AT FOUNDERS AWARD 2022
MORE ABOUT FOUNDERS AWARD
Since 2007, the Museum of Pop Culture Founders Award has celebrated artists whose noteworthy contributions to music continue to nurture the next generation of creators. As the nonprofit museum’s signature benefit gala, proceeds raised from the event support our youth education programs, community engagement initiatives, and cutting-edge exhibitions.
MORE ABOUT QUINCY JONES
Celebrating more than 60 years performing and being involved in music, Quincy Jones’ creative magic began with the music of the post-swing era and continues through today’s high-technology, international multi-media hybrids. His career has encompassed the roles of composer, record producer, artist, film producer, arranger, conductor, instrumentalist, TV producer, record company executive, magazine founder, multi-media entrepreneur and humanitarian.
The laurels, awards and accolades have been innumerable, including being one of only a handful of EGOTS — winners of the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards.
Quincy is the all-time most nominated Grammy artist with a total of 80 Grammy nominations and 28 awards as well as the Grammy Living Legend Award. He has also won the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, N.A.R.A.S.’ prestigious Trustees’ Award. His international honors have ranged from France’s Commandeur de la Legion d’ Honneur, to the Royal Swedish Academy of Music’s coveted Polar Music Prize, to Italy’s Rudolph Valentino Award. He was named as a Kennedy Center Honoree in 2001 for his contributions to the cultural fabric of the United States of America; and was bestowed the National Medal of Arts, our nation’s highest artistic honor in 2010.
PAST HONOREES
Alice In Chains 2020
Brandi Carlile 2019
John Fogerty 2018
The Doors 2017
Joe Walsh 2016
Jimmy Page 2015
Jackson Browne 2014
Crosby, Stills & Nash 2013
Carlos Santana 2012
Buddy Guy 2011
Billy Cox 2010
Steve Cropper 2009
Robbie Robertson 2008
Ann & Nancy Wilson 2007
FOUNDERS AWARD COMMITTEE
JODY ALLEN *
HONORARY CHAIR
LESLIE JACKSON CHIHULY
DANA FRANK *
COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS
TIM BIERMAN *
CHARLIE BILLOW
MARK DEDERER
CINDY GANTZ
SHELLEY HILF
IAN R. KERRIGAN
MARIA MACKEY
LIZ MCCONNELL
MIKE MCCONNELL
MICHELLE QUISENBERRY *
AMY SPRANGERS
* = MoPOP Board Member
THANK you TO OUR GENEROUS 2022 Founders Award SPONSORS