The ‘Godfather of Black Music’ Clarence Avant has died on the age 92 – practically two years after his spouse was shot and killed by an intruder throughout a house invasion.
Avant – who was a legendary Grammy-winning govt, live performance promoter, and supervisor – died at his house in Los Angeles on Sunday, his household introduced.
All through his stellar music govt profession, he helped artists together with Invoice Withers, Jay-Z, Whitney Houston, Little Willie John, L.A. Reid, Babyface, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis – and chaired the legendary Motown Information within the Nineteen Nineties.
Clarence daughter, Nicole, 55, is married to Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos. Nicole was ambassador to the Bahamas, appointed by then-president Barack Obama in 2009.
The ‘Godfather of Black Music’ Clarence Avant has died aged 92 practically two years after his spouse (left) was killed in a house invasion
Ted Sarandos and his father-in-law Clarence Avant attended the thirty sixth Annual Rock & Roll Corridor Of Fame Induction Ceremony at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse on October 30, 2021
In an announcement asserting his dying, the Avant Sarandos household stated: ‘Clarence leaves behind a loving household and a sea of associates and associates which have modified the world and can proceed to alter the world for generations to return.
‘The enjoyment of his legacy eases the sorrow of our loss.’
The Motown fixture’s life and legacy was chronicled by his son-in-law Sarandos’ streaming service in 2019, in a documentary titled The Black Godfather.
The Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame described Avant as ‘cool, savvy, assured, and fearless – somebody who makes the unimaginable doable.
Jay-Z, Clarence Avant and Sean Combs, often called P Diddy, are pictured collectively in 2020
Music Govt Clarence Avant and his spouse Jacqueline Avant attend a ceremony honoring him with a star on the Hollywood Stroll of Fame on October 7, 2016
Lionel Richie presents Clarence Avant the Ahmet Ertegun Award onstage in October 2021
‘He is served a wide range of roles throughout his illustrious profession, together with supervisor, label proprietor, live performance organizer, occasion producer, political fundraiser, and mentor.’
‘Avant’s profession started within the Fifties when he served because the supervisor for Little Willie John and jazz organist Jimmy Smith.
‘In late 1969, he launched Sussex Information, a label that quickly achieved a Prime Ten hit with Dennis Coffey’s Scorpio. Essentially the most notable artist on Sussex was Invoice Withers, who launched his first three data for the label, that includes the hits Ain’t No Sunshine, Lean on Me, and Use Me.
‘In 1971, Avant launched Avant Garde Broadcasting, one of many first Black-owned radio stations within the nation.’
The storied exec was additionally an completed producer and actor – recognized for Ship Us from Evil in 1975, The Coloration Purple in 1985 and Jason’s Lyric in 1994.
Philanthropist Jacqueline Avant, spouse of music govt Clarence Avant and mother-in-law of Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos, was shot and killed throughout a house invasion theft within the early hours of December 1, 2021
Jacqueline Avant, Clarence Avant and Gail Mitchell pictured on November 10, 2019
Surprising images obtained by DailyMail.com present the sliding glass door that was smashed by house invaders who killed the spouse of legendary music govt Clarence Avant in 2021
He was awarded a star on the Hollywood Stroll of Fame in 2016.
Avant’s dying comes simply 20 months after his spouse of 54 years, Jacqueline Avant, was shot and killed throughout a house invasion at their $7million mansion in Beverley Hills.
Jacqueline was killed by profession prison Aariel Maynor, within the high-profile house invasion that went horribly improper.
Beverly Hills police had been referred to as to the couple’s mansion in gated group Trousdale Estates round 2.30am December 1, 2021, after a 911 caller stated somebody had been shot, in keeping with Beverly Hills Police Chief Mark Stainbrook.
Cops arriving on the scene found 81-year-old Jacqueline nonetheless alive, affected by a single gunshot wound. She was transported to an area hospital, the place she died later that morning.
Clarence, then 90, was within the house on the time, asleep, however was not injured. Jacqueline, who cops say was awake within the Bel-Air house, startled the burglar, armed with an AR-15, spurring him to shoot and depart emptyhanded.
Cops then tracked down Maynor, who had been on parole on the time of the break-in, to the yard of one other Hollywood house he was trying to burglarize, after he mistakenly shot himself within the foot with the identical rifle he used to kill Avant.
The house was about seven miles from the Avant residence. Police discovered Maynor there, in addition to proof of a housebreaking at that house, and took him into custody.
