Clive davis biography family

Born Clive Jay Davis, April 4, 1934, in Brooklyn, NY; son of Herman and Florence (Brooks) Davis; divorced; children: Fred, Lauren, Mitchell, Douglas. Education: New York University, B.A. (magna cum laude), 1953; Harvard University, LL.B.

(magna cum laude), 1956. Addresses: Office--Arista Records, Inc., 6 West 57th St., New York, NY 10019-3913.

One of the most powerful figures in the recording industry, Clive Davis has presided over Arista Records for more than two decades.

Davis has helped to shape the trends in the pop and rock music industries since the mid-1960s, and he has piloted Arista Records through the changing musical scene of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s--a period that gave birth to such innovative sounds as punk, grunge, and rap.

Under Davis's management, the small but influential Arista label has averaged more than $300 million in sales yearly since 1990 with a catalog that includes Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, the Grateful Dead, the Kinks, Crash Test Dummies,