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Clive Davis Dies: Music Mogul Was 94
Meaghan Darwish
JUNE 22, 2026, 12:15 PM

Clive Davis, the music mogul known for helping make performers like Janis Joplin, Bruce Springsteen, Whitney Houston, and Billy Joel household names, has died at the age of 94.

The music producer had reportedly been hospitalized with an upper respiratory infection recently and died at his home in New York City on Monday, June 22. Most recently, Davis served as the COO of Sony Music Entertainment and was the former head of labels Columbia, Arista Records, and J Records, as well as a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Davis had also served as the president of CBS Records, where he discovered acts like Springsteen, Joel, Joplin, and Aerosmith. Under his label Arista, Davis shone a light on stars like Houston, The Notorious B.I.G., Patti Smith, Usher, TLC, and many others. His ability to recognize talent made him a top target for corporate shakeups, and he emerged with even more power when he launched J Records, leading to his rise in power at Sony Music.

Born in New York in 1932, Clive Davis was raised in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights, where his family was middle-class. Ultimately, Davis attended NYU, where he graduated in 1953, before moving on to Harvard Law School. He ended up being admitted to the New York Bar Association in 1957 and joined the firm of Rosenman, Colin, Kay, Petschek, and Freund…..

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