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NYU’s Clive Davis Institute Chair on 20 Years of Growth: ‘How We Get There Today Will Not Be How We Get There Tomorrow’


Clive Davis Institute chair Nick Sansano tells Billboard how the program has grown and educated future music business leaders for the past 20 years.

As if to highlight Davis’ assertion, earlier that same day in April, one of the most successful alums of the school, Maggie Rogers, announced her first arena tour, in support of her album Don’t Forget Me, which peaked at No. The school also hosts its share of guest speakers and performers — Davis, Williams, Alicia Keys, Benny Blanco, Chris Blackwell, Jay-Z, Mark Ronson, Paul Simon, Rihanna and Stevie Wonder among them. Nick Sansano, chair of the Clive Davis Institute, recently sat down with Billboard to describe the school’s program, which, like the music industry itself, is constantly evolving and rooted in a bit of rebellion.

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