Clive Davis has played a key role in some of the biggest careers in pop music, including '60s rock icons Janis Joplin , the Grateful Dead and Carlos Santana as well as pop and R&B hitmakers Barry Manilow , Whitney Houston and Alicia Keys. He’s long and consistently expressed the importance of finding first-rate songs, whether the artists come up with them on their own or they look to other writers.
