BY DELISA THWALA
MBABANE– Iconic music producer Quincy Jones, best known for his work with Michael Jackson, is launching a new music channel catering to African audiences, and Eswatini will form part of the audience.
This information was revealed by Quincy Jones during a live Instagram video yesterday, Jones was visibly elated with announcing the good news and said he looked forward to the channel growing.
With exclusive access to high-end music, great concerts, documentaries, and never-seen archived interviews, the global music streaming platform QWEST TV will officially make its way to DStv channel 330.
Eswatini, South Africa, Lesotho, and Angola among other countries will form part of the over a million audience.
QWEST will offer exclusive content to DStv users, including exclusive concerts from legendary artists and rising stars from across the globe, music documentaries, archived footage of some of everyone’s favorite artists, extensive interviews with the likes of Erykah Badu, Questlove, Salif Keita, and Gregory Porter.
Founded in 2017 by Jones, along with TV and music producer/programmer Reza Ackbaraly, Qwest TV aims to provide ‘genre-agnostic musical content to the African continent’. The channel will be included in all the DStv packages in 44 countries across the continent.
One would know that Quincy Delight Jones is an American record producer, musician, songwriter, composer, arranger, and film and television producer. His career spans 70 years in the entertainment industry with a record of 80 Grammy Award nominations, 28 Grammys, and a Grammy Legend Award in 1992.
