Word: davision
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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It was like spinach, and it turned a pencil-neck into a Popeye. Davis rolled to a 58%-to-38% victory last year and, while he can't be more than 140 lbs., he took the landslide as a mandate and has been throwing his weight around ever since. When...
In the grunge-struck '90s, when record-industry sages were trumpeting Nirvana and the flannel-clad hordes from Seattle as the next big thing, Arista Records president Clive Davis made a huge gamble: he invested millions in hip-hop, a genre many viewed as too troubled to be worth the...
Youth culture may rule music, but Davis, 65, always seems to have the right spin on the future. The year that ended in June was Arista's best ever--$425 million in sales and 69 gold or platinum disks by artists from diva Whitney Houston to country star Alan Jackson...
Or old talent. Take guitar god Carlos Santana, 52, whose relevance has dwindled since his 1970 hit Abraxas. Last year the Woodstock veteran signed with Arista. Davis refocused Santana's songs toward radio and teamed him with new stars like Lauryn Hill, enticing a new generation of fans to discover...
And then there is Sarah McLachlan's Surfacing, a beautiful album of light folk-pop--which could be a euphemism for "slow death." Davis divined a vast pool of potential buyers awakened by the Lilith Fair Tour, so Arista flogged the album at MTV and radio for months until the...