QUINCY JONES - JONES APPEALS FOR US CULTURAL AMBASSADOR

JONES APPEALS FOR US CULTURAL AMBASSADOR

Music legend QUINCY JONES is urging U.S. President-elect BARACK OBAMA to create a ministry of culture, insisting it's embarrassing the government has no ambassador for the arts.
The producer claims the U.S. and Germany are the only countries with no culture minister, which he regards as ridiculous, considering America's contribution to popular music, movies, television and theatre around the globe.
Jones, who has worked with Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra and Donna Summer, among others, says, "Every country on the planet is playing American music. And we don't have a ministry of culture."