Clive Davis
Clive Davis was born in Brooklyn, New York, United States on April 4th, 1932 and is the Music Producer. At the age of 92, Clive Davis biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Clive Jay Davis (born April 4, 1932) is an American record producer, A&R executive, and a music industry executive.
Davis 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.
He was the founder and president of Arista Records from 1975 to 2000 before establishing J Records.
Davis served as the chair and CEO of RCA Music Group (which also included RCA Records, J Records, and Arista Records), as well as the chairman and CEO of BMG North America from 2002 to 2008. In 1967, Davis was hired for Columbia by Tony Orlando, a young recording artist.
Janis Joplin, Laura Nyro, Santana, Bruce Springsteen, Chicago, Billy Joel, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Loggins & Messina, Aerosmith, Pink Floyd, and Westlife have all signed him.
Davis is also known for bringing Whitney Houston and Barry Manilow to fame. A. Davis is the chief creative officer of Sony Music Entertainment as of 2018.
Early life and education
Davis was born in Brooklyn, New York City, to a Jewish family, the son of Herman and Florence Davis. His father was an electrician and salesman. Davis was born in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
His mother died at the age of 47, and his father died the following year when Davis was still a youth. He and his then moved to Bayside, Queens, New York City, with his married sister.
He attended the New York University College of Arts and Science, where he graduated magna cum laude with a degree in political science and Phi Beta Kappa in 1953. He was granted a full scholarship to Harvard Law School, where he served on the Board of Student Advisers and graduated in 1956.
Personal life
Davis has been married and divorced twice before. He was married to Helen Cohen from 1956 to 1965, and Janet Adelberg from 1965 to 1985. Fred (born 1960), a prominent media investment banker, Lauren (born 1962), an entertainment lawyer and Arts Professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Mitchell (born 1970), and Doug Davis (born 1974), a Grammy Award-winning recording artist and musician. Davis has eight grandchildren.
Davis came out explicitly bisexual in his autobiography The Soundtrack of My Life in 2013. On the daytime talk show Katie Couric, he told host Katie Couric that he hoped his being out would lead to "deeper knowledge" of bisexuality.
Career
Davis began practicing law in a small New York practice, then expanded to Rosenman, Colin, Kaye, Petschek, and Freund, where partner Ralph Colin was a CBS advocate. Davis was eventually recruited by a former employee of the firm to serve as assistant counsel of CBS subsidiary Columbia Records from age 28, then general counsel the following year.
Davis was appointed as executive vice president and general manager in 1965 as part of Columbia Records Group's reorganization. CBS formed the Columbia-CBS Group, which reorganized CBS's live music sales into CBS Records, with Davis as the current unit's head.
Davis, who was elected president next year, became involved in the newest generation of folk rock and roll. Donovan, a British folk-rock musician who had a string of hit singles and albums released in the United States on Epic Records, was one of his earliest pop signings. Danny Orlando, a 23-year-old recording artist, was hired as general manager of Columbia Publishing subsidiary April-Blackwood Music; Orlando went on to become Columbia's vice president and hired Barry Manilow in 1969.
Davis attended the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 after his friends and business associate, Lou Adler, convinced him. Janis Joplin of Big Brother and the Holding Company was signed immediately by Columbia, and The Electric Flag, Santana, Bruce Springsteen, Chicago, Billy Joel, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Loggins & Messina, Aerosmith, and Pink Floyd were among the first celebrities to sign Laura Nyro, The Electric Flag, Santana, Bruce Springsteen, Bruce Springsteen, Chicago, Billy Joel, Billy Joel, Burning Brothers, Bruce Springsteen, Chicago, Billy Joel The firm, which had previously avoided rock music (with the exception of Dion DiMucci, The Byrds, Simon & Garfunkel, and Paul Revere and the Raiders), doubled its market share in three years.
Lynn Anderson's Rose Garden, one of Davis' most commercially successful recordings, was released in late 1970. Davis' next single release was "Rose Garden." The album debuted in 16 countries around the world and was the most popular album by a female country artist for 27 years.
Davis dedicated Earth, Wind & Fire to Columbia Records in 1972. In the early 1970s, Max's Kansas City's Max's New York City's Max's was one of his most well-known victories. "Old Clive Davis said he's surely going to make us a celebrity, so you'll make us a star, just the way you are." Bob Weir of The Grateful Dead occasionally changed the lyrics of a Dead standard "Jack Straw" in concert from "We used to play for gold, now we play for life" to "we used to play for life," to "we used to play for acid, now we play for Clive."
The proto-punk band Death, one of Davis' remaining bands, attempted to sign to Columbia Records. He was the only one who was interested in a black band playing rock music, according to their documentary, but he begged them to change their names. They declined, owing to the fact that the name was a remark on a personal event. The deal came to an end, and the band's album was released on another label 35 years later.
Columbia Pictures hired Davis to be a consultant for the company's Bell Records label after Davis was fired from CBS Records in 1973 for reportedly using company funds to finance his son's bar mitzvah. Davis took time out to write his memoirs and then formed Arista Records in 1974. Davis was a member of the secondary school honor society of New York City, of which Davis was a member.
Davis added Barry Manilow, Aretha Franklin, Dionne Warwick, Patti Smith, Westlife, Al Jourgensen, The Outlaws, Eric Carmen, The Outlaws, Eric Garcia, Gunman, Grateful Dead, The Kinks, Jermaine Stewart, and Alicia Keys, along with Garnet Jones, Jr. and Raydio, and Alicia Keys, and Alicia Keys (on whose episode of TV One'sunsuns, Davis, Gilbert Gilbert Gilbert, Peter Davis, Bernita Gilbert, Patti Smith, Patti Smith, Al Jour, Al Jourgen, and Connor, Al Jourgen, The Outlaw, Eric Carmen, Ray Parker, The Outlaw,, and Ray Parker, and -Sa, and Rayson, and Rayson,'sen, and a Smith, and ta Peter Peta Stewart, Davis, and -Heron, Jr. Davis (on'sen, and &Lea Davis, and e, Davis, and & Ray Parker, and Ray Parker, The Outlaw, and &Brition Davis, Jr. Tim DuBois and Tim DuBois co-founded Arista Nashville, which became the home of Alan Jackson, Brooks & Dunn, Pam Tillis, and Brad Paisley.
Davis created LaFace Records with L.A. Reid and Babyface. Later, LaFace became the home of TLC, Usher, Outkast, Pink, and Toni Braxton. He formed Bad Boy Records with Sean "Puffy" Combs, and the Notorious B.I.G., Combs, Mase, 112, and Faith Evans, although Davis later admitted that he never fully comprehended rap music. Davis, a 1998 graduate of the University of LFO, became the LFO of European Success. In 1999, LFO charted #3 with "Summer Girls" and went on to multiplatinum success.
Clive Davis Entertainment, a video production company, formed Clive Davis Entertainment in 1987, a two-year first-look deal with movie studio Tri-Star Pictures.
After seeing the Houstons perform at a New York City nightclub, Davis was alerted of Cissy Houston's daughter Whitney Houston. Davis resigned her to Arista after being taken ill with what he heard. Houston was one of the best-selling musicians in music history under the direction of Davis at Arista.
Davis and his four children were born in 2000 and formed J Records, an independent label with financial support from Arista's Bertelsmann Music Group. In 2002, BMG would purchase a majority stake in J Records, and Davis will serve as president and CEO of the larger RCA Music Group.
Davis' continued success in breaking new artists was lauded by the music industry's HitQuarters when the executive was named "world No.1 A&R of 2001" based on global chart results for the year.
BMG was a division of Sony Music Entertainment in 2004 and was renamed Sony Music Entertainment. Sony Music Entertainment merged with BMG to form Sony BMG. Davis would return to his former employer with the funds of the former CBS Records (renamed Sony Music Entertainment in 1991), which would be under Sony's control. Davis was employed at RCA Label Group until 2008, when he was named chief creative officer for Sony BMG.
As Sony BMG sold its shares to Sony, Davis was promoted to Chief Creative Officer of Sony Music Entertainment, a position he currently holds as part of a corporate reorganisation. In October 2011, Arista Records and J Records, both founded by Davis, were dissolved as a result of RCA Records' reorganization. All artists under those labels have been transferred to RCA Records.