American music executive Clive Davis signed 19-year-old gospel-trained singer Whitney Houston to Arista Records in 1983 and groomed her for crossover pop success. Her debut album, Whitney Houston (1985), yielded three number one singles in the United States, and she became one of the best-selling performers of the 1980s and ’90s. Houston died in February 2012 in a bathtub at a Beverly Hills hotel shortly before Davis’s annual pre-Grammy Awards party. She was 48. Davis died in June 2026 at age 94.
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