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Clive Davis
Clive Jay Davis was an American record executive, A&R executive, record producer and lawyer. He won four Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a non-performer in 2000. From 1967 to 1973, Davis was the president of Columbia Records. He was the founder and president of Arista Records from 1974 through 2000 until founding J Records. From 2002 until April 2008, he was c…
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business · American music executive (1932–2026) · record producer · music executive · businessperson · composer · jurist · also Clive Davis, Davis
Born 4 April 1932 · Died 22 June 2026 · Q1101938
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2026· 7 entries
Public attention spiked: 6,416 Wikipedia readers in one day, 5.8× the usual 1,101, with 2 article edits.
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Public attention spiked: 56,938 Wikipedia readers in one day, 51.7× the usual 1,101, with 23 article edits. Editors noted: Personal life and death
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Public attention spiked: 31,901 Wikipedia readers in one day, 29× the usual 1,101, with 9 article edits. Editors noted: Personal life and death irrelevant
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Public attention spiked: 321,529 Wikipedia readers in one day, 292.2× the usual 1,101, with 130 article edits. Editors noted: In public life and popular culture
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Died 2026-06-22.
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2015· 1 entry
Was recognized by Equality Forum as one of the 31 Icons of the LGBT History Month
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2013· 1 entry
At the age of 80, Davis publicly came out as bisexual in his autobiography The Soundtrack of My Life
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2011· 1 entry
The 200-seat theater at the Grammy Museum was named the "Clive Davis Theater"
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2008· 1 entry
Awarded Grammy Award for Best R&B Album for Jennifer Hudson (2008).
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2005· 1 entry
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album for Breakaway (2005).
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2004· 1 entry
BMG merged with Sony Music Entertainment to form Sony BMG
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2002· 1 entry
And Davis became president and CEO of the larger RCA Music Group
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2000· 4 entries
Awarded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2000).
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Davis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the non-performers category
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And the President's Merit Award at the 2009 Grammys
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And started J Records, an independent label with financial backing from Arista parent Bertelsmann Music Group, named with the middle initial of Davis and his four children
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1999· 3 entries
Awarded Grammy Trustees Award (1999).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Rock Album for Supernatural (1999).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Album of the Year for Supernatural (1999).
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1998· 1 entry
Davis signed LFO, who became best known for their 1999 hit single "Summer Girls"
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1997· 1 entry
Awarded star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (1997).
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1989· 1 entry
With Tim DuBois, which became the home to Alan Jackson, Brooks & Dunn, Pam Tillis, and Brad Paisley
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1979· 2 entries
“s surely gonna make us a star, I”
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Aerosmith mentioned Davis in the song "No Surprize", in which Steven Tyler sings, "Old Clive Davis said he's surely gonna make us a star, I'm gonna make you a star, just the way you are
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1978· 1 entry
Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead occasionally changed the lyrics of the Dead standard "Jack Straw" in concert from "we used to play for silver, now we play for life", to "we used to play for acid, now we play for Clive
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1973· 1 entry
For allegedly using company funds to bankroll his son's bar mitzvah, Columbia Pictures then hired him to be a consultant for the company's Bell Records label
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1972· 1 entry
Davis signed both Earth, Wind & Fire and Aerosmith to Columbia Records
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1967· 2 entries
Davis was appointed president and became interested in the newest generation of folk rock and rock and roll
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Who provided Barry Manilow with his first recording contract a few years later
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1966· 1 entry
CBS formed the Columbia–CBS Group which reorganized CBS's recorded music operations into CBS Records with Davis heading the new unit
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1956· 1 entry
Studied at Harvard Law School (1956).
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1953· 1 entry
Studied at New York University College of Arts and Science, Bachelor of Arts (1953).
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1932· 2 entries
In Brooklyn, New York City, to Jewish parents, Herman and Florence Davis
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Born 1932-04-04.
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