New Delhi, July 3 -- When Jennifer Hudson rose to sing at Clive Davis's funeral on Sunday, she did not choose one of her own songs. She performed Whitney Houston, and the room at Central Synagogue understood immediately why.

here is what this man heard in a teenager's voice before almost anyone else in the industry had started listening.

Davis, 94, died recently, and was remembered Sunday at Central Synagogue in Midtown Manhattan in a service that gathered a cross-section of the industry he had shaped for six decades. Kenny G opened with a clarinet solo. Hudson performed covers of Leonard Cohen and Whitney Houston. As Davis's casket was carried from the sanctuary for private burial, a string quartet played "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" ...