FILE - Bobby Brown, left, and Whitney Houston appear with music producer Clive Davis, right, at a pre-Grammy party in New York on Feb. 24, 1998. (AP Photo/Stuart Ramson, File)

FILE - Music producer Clive Davis attends the special screening of "Western Stars" at Metrograph in New York on Oct. 16, 2019. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

FILE - Music producer Berry Gordy, right, appears with Clive Davis during Davis' Pre-Grammy Party in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Feb. 10, 2007. (AP Photo/Danny Moloshok, File)

FILE - Music producer Clive Davis, left, appears with singer Whitney Houston at the pre-Grammy gala in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Feb. 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, file)

FILE - Sony Music Entertainment's Chief Creative Officer and famous hitmaker Clive Davis posing for a portrait in his office in New York on Feb. 18, 2013. (Photo by Dan Hallman/Invision/AP, File)

FILE - Clive Davis, chief creative officer of Sony Music, appears during press day in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Jan. 23, 2014, prior to Davis' annual pre-Grammy gala. (Photo by Casey Curry/Invision/AP, File

Kacey Musgraves performs at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in New Orleans on April 25, 2025, left, and Miranda Lambert performs at the 60th annual Academy of Country Music Awards in Frisco, Texas on May 8, 2025. (AP Photo)

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