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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 28: Clive Davis attends the "Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere" Red Carpet during the 63rd New York Film Festival at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center on September 28, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images for FLC)
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Clive Davis, the iconic music industry producer who discovered singer Whitney Houston and help launch several other musicians’ careers including Bruce Springsteen, Janis Joplin and Alicia Keys, has died.
David died in New York on Monday morning, TMZ reported. He was 94. No cause of death was given, but TMZ reported that Davis was hospitalized earlier this month with a respiratory infection, but was released on June 4.
Davis was enshrined in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000.
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