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Remembering music and entertainment executive Clarence Avant

NPR

Published August 16, 2023 at 8:33 AM EDT

Executive and businessman Clarence Avant died on Sunday at 92.

NPR’s Anastasia Tsioulcas shares this remembrance.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.

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