{"id":2470773,"date":"2026-06-22T16:36:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T16:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2470773"},"modified":"2026-06-22T16:36:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T16:36:46","slug":"clive-davis-producer-for-alicia-keys-whitney-houston-dead-at-94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/clive-davis-producer-for-alicia-keys-whitney-houston-dead-at-94\/","title":{"rendered":"Clive Davis, Producer for Alicia Keys, Whitney Houston, Dead at 94"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hollywood is playing a somber tune.<\/p>\n

Clive Davis<\/strong>\u2014the music executive who helped catapult the likes of Whitney Houston<\/strong><\/a>, Alicia Keys<\/strong><\/a> and Bruce Springsteen<\/strong> to the upper echelons of fame\u2014died on June 22 following a hospitalization for respiratory issues, his family confirmed to The New York Times<\/a>. He was 94.<\/p>\n

Born in Brooklyn in 1932, Davis never foresaw a life of music for himself\u2014but in addition to the many artists who are grateful he ended up in the career he did, so, too, was Davis. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI had no idea that I was ever getting into music,\u201d he told The Guardian in 2014.<\/a> \u201cI did not prepare for a music career, and here I\u2019ve found, out of pure luck, that I did have, not only a talent and an ear, but a passion for music. And I have it to this day.\u201d<\/p>\n

But even so, Davis\u2019 path to music was circuitous, beginning his career as a lawyer after graduating from Harvard Law School in 1956. It was eventually being hired by Columbia Records at age 28 that would alter the course of his life and career.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.eonline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hollywood is playing a somber tune. Clive Davis\u2014the music executive who helped catapult the likes of Whitney Houston, Alicia Keys and Bruce Springsteen to the upper echelons of fame\u2014died on June 22 following a hospitalization for respiratory issues, his family confirmed to The New York Times. He was 94. Born in Brooklyn in 1932, Davis […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2470774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2470773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Clive-Davis-Producer-for-Alicia-Keys-Whitney-Houston-Dead-at.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2470773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2470775,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470773\/revisions\/2470775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2470774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2470773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2470773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2470773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}