(FILES) US founder and President of Arista Records Clive Davis arrives at the Arista Records 25th Anniversary Celebration at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, 10 April 2000. Davis, the pioneering American music executive who made megastars of Aretha Franklin, Bruce Springsteen, Carrie Underwood and many others during half a century of shaping modern music, died June 22, 2026 at age 94, US media reported. (Photo by LUCY NICHOLSON / AFP via Getty Images)