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| General info : | | Clive Davis (born April 4, 1932, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.) is an American record producer and music executive producer.
He has won five Grammy Awards and is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a non-performer.
From 1967 to 1973, Davis was the president of Columbia Records. He was the founder and president of Arista Records from 1975 through 2000 until founding J Records.
From 2002 until April 2008, Davis was the chairman and CEO of the RCA Music Group (which included RCA Records, J Records and Arista Records), chairman and CEO of J Records, and chairman and CEO of BMG North America.
Currently Davis is the chief creative officer of Sony Music Entertainment. Davis is credited with bringing Whitney Houston to prominence.
Davis is an alumnus of New York University, where the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, the recorded music division of its Tisch School of the Arts, is named after him.
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