Clive Jay Davis (born on April 4, 1932) is an American record maker, A&R chief, record leader, and legal advisor. He has won five Grammy Awards and was enlisted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a non-entertainer, in 2000.

From 1967 to 1973, Davis was the leader of Columbia Records. He was the pioneer and leader of Arista Records from 1974 through 2000 until establishing J Records.

From 2002 until April 2008, Davis was the seat and CEO of the RCA Music Group (which included RCA Records, J Records, and Arista Records), seat and CEO of J Records, and seat and CEO of BMG North America.

Davis is credited with recruiting a youthful recording craftsman, Tony Orlando, for Columbia in 1967.

He has marked numerous specialists that made critical progress, including Sly and the Family Stone, Janis Joplin, Laura Nyro, Santana, Bruce Springsteen, Chicago, Billy Joel, Donovan, Blood, Sweat and Tears, Loggins and Messina, Ace of Base, Aerosmith, Olivia Longott, Pink Floyd, and Westlife. Davis is additionally credited with carrying Whitney Houston and Barry Manilow to noticeable quality.

Starting around 2018, Davis is the boss imaginative official of Sony Music Entertainment.

Individual life

Davis has been hitched and separated two times. He was hitched to Helen Cohen from 1956 to 1965 and to Janet Adelberg from 1965 to 1985.

He has four kids: Fred (born 1960), a noticeable media speculation investor, Lauren (born 1962), a diversion lawyer and Arts Professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Mitchell (born 1970), and Doug Davis (born 1974), a music chief and Grammy grant winning record-maker. Davis has eight grandkids.

In 2013, Davis freely emerged as sexually open in his self-portrayal The Soundtrack of My Life.

On the daytime syndicated program Katie, he told Katie Couric that he trusted his approaching out would prompt "more prominent comprehension" of sexual openness.