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\n\tYou didn\u2019t just sign an artist, you recognized the soul. You saw not just the music I\u2019d already made, but the music that was still sweeping inside of me, waiting for someone with the wisdom and the courage to call it forward. You called it forward. You called me<\/em> forward. I think about the way you always spoke about music with such reverence, like it was sacred, like it mattered, like it meant something in a world that so often reduces art to commerce and genius to product. You held the line. You reminded me again and again that what we were doing was about truth, and legacy, and about the human heart reaching out to another human heart and saying, \u201cYou\u2019re not alone.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\tWhen we first met, you told me that you would treat me like Joni Mitchell, and I was like, \u201cWoah.\u201d You said, \u201cI\u2019ll treat you like Joni Mitchell, because Joni Mitchell tells me when she\u2019s done, and when she\u2019s done, then it\u2019s time.\u201d And that was the belief he had in me. And that belief created Songs in A Minor<\/em>. And because of your guidance, I found the courage to be completely and unapologetically myself at a time when the industry wanted me to be something smaller, something easier, something safer. <\/p>\n\n\tYou never asked me to shrink.\u00a0You always asked me to expand. You gave me my first real stage \u2014 not just a spotlight, but a stage. And we always joked that the first time you asked me to perform, you said, \u201cI have good news and I have bad news.\u201d You said, \u201cThe good news is you\u2019re going to perform at my Grammy party. It\u2019s going to be the first time I\u2019m introducing a new artist.\u201d I was like, \u201cWow.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
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\n\t\u201cBad news. You\u2019re gonna have to follow Gladys Knight.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tThat\u2019s pretty bad news [laughs<\/em>].<\/p>\n\n\tYou gave me a place to stand, and to speak, and to sing, and to be heard, and to write, and to produce, and to create. And I\u2019ve tried every single day since then to be worthy of that stage, because I know how important that is. And I know what it cost you to bet on a young girl from Hell\u2019s Kitchen, who believed a piano could change the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tClive, you are woven into the fabric of who I am. Not just as an artist, as a woman. You showed me what it looks like to move through with integrity and intention. You showed me that excellence is not an accident, it\u2019s a devotion, a daily, relentless, beautiful devotion, and I carry that with me everywhere I go.<\/p>\n
\n\tTo your family: Thank you for loving me just as much as he does; and always know that the man you love and cherish has poured something immeasurable into the lives of artists who might otherwise have never found their voices. The music that has moved us and comforted us, and we celebrate with so much of it, exists because Clive Davis believed it could and should. And that legacy will outlast all of us, and it will live in every song, in every concert hall, in every quiet room where someone puts on a record and finally feels understood.<\/p>\n
\n\tI honor you, and I love you. I am because you believed that I could be. Thank you for the music, for the vision, for the encouragement for the friendship. Really every single time, every single time. <\/p>\n\n\n
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\n\tAnd he knew everything. He knew everything that was going on at all times. You couldn\u2019t believe it. You really never could believe it. How do you know every single thing at all times? And then had a very clear opinion about it as well? That was right, by the way!<\/p>\n
\n\tSo, thank you. Thank you for seeing me fully, completely from the very beginning, even before I fully saw myself. With all my heart, all my soul, and every single note I\u2019ve ever played, Alicia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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