Clive Davis Honored at 2025 Apollo Theater Spring Profit: Pictures

Clive Davis was honored with the Legacy Award on the 2025 Apollo Theater Spring Profit on Wednesday (June 4).

The legendary music business govt hit the crimson carpet of the star-studded gala carrying a metallic swimsuit coat, and posed for photographs with attendees like Busta Rhymes, Larry Jackson, Sherri Shepherd, Jawn Murray and extra.

The profit reportedly raised greater than $5 million for the renovation of the long-lasting New York Metropolis landmark — which has served as a centerpiece of Black music, tradition and artistry within the coronary heart of Harlem for greater than a century — and featured performances by Methodology Man, Rhymes, and Deborah Cox and Shoshana Bean.

To assist pay tribute to Davis, Whitney Houston’s sister-in-law Pat Houston supplied heartfelt remarks in the course of the ceremony, reflecting on the report govt’s unbreakable bond with the late celebrity. “I might by no means talk about Clive and never point out Whitney, and I can by no means talk about Whitney with out talking of Clive,” she mentioned. “The one factor I want for tonight is Whitney had been right here to talk as an alternative of me, as a result of I understand how proud she could be of you at this second.”

Elsewhere over the course of the evening, Teyana Taylor was the recipient of the Apollo Theater’s first-ever Innovator Award, greater than 20 years after she first carried out on its stage at simply eight years previous.

Beneath, swipe by way of Billboard’s gallery of photographs from the Apollo’s Spring Profit, together with snaps of Davis’ acceptance speech, Cox and Bean’s hovering duet, Rhymes’ efficiency with an help from Spliff Star and extra.