Clive Davis. (Photo via Clive Davis' Instagram)
June 22, 2026
Famed music executive Clive Davis dead at 94 — US media
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Clive Davis, the pioneering American music executive who made megastars of Aretha Franklin, Bruce Springsteen, Carrie Underwood and many others during half a century of shaping modern music, died Monday at age 94, US media reported.
The industry A-lister and onetime boss of Columbia Records, who embraced genres from rock & roll to early hip-hop and pop, was recently hospitalised with respiratory problems, according to a New York Times report.
The Davis family confirmed his death.
