Phyllis Hyman
[2012 Feb] Whitney Houston, the Devil in the
Details & The Satanic Sacrifice of the Symbolic Black Diva
The late beautiful and spiritual Phyllis Hyman had an extraordinary voice and
remarkable stunning 6’ 2” presence. Phyllis was signed to Buddha Records who
came under Arista’s ownership while Clive Davis was president of the label.
During the four years that Hyman was under Davis’ mentorship, she came to loathe
him. According to some, Phyllis was a very proud and opinionated woman who irked
Davis, who was rumored to be a closeted homosexual pedophile.
Reportedly, Hyman became stunned
that Clive Davis would not consider giving her R & B ballads a chance. Hyman
remade the hit of the Stylistics “Betcha By Golly Wow”. She thought that its
success would demonstrate a continuous trend of the success of R&B for the
future. However, Davis had a different global agenda that they could manipulate
and control through Pop Music. He wanted to control Hyman’s music, content and
message. Davis demanded that she drop R&B and Jazz Genres with its deep African
roots and influences; crossover and sell and promote corporate controlled Pop
music.
Queen Divine as she knew that she
had been, Hyman rebelled and was left deliberately unrecorded for four years to
quell her message. Due to contractual obligations to Clive Davis and Arista, she
couldn’t sign with another label. Like Michael Jackson and Sony-Arista records
tried to destroy Hyman’s career by deleting her key albums and CDs. They also
conspired to prevent her from recording full length albums elsewhere. During
Phyllis’ legal battles with Arista, Clive Davis promoted Dionne Warwick, Aretha
Franklin, Angelea Bofill and 22 year old Whitney Houston in 1985.
In June 1995, 46 year old Phyllis
Hyman was found dead in her New York apartment. The coroner listed the cause of
death as an intentional overdose of pentobarbital and secobarbital (sleeping
pills).[20] Five months after her death, Clive Davis released her last album, “I
Refuse to Be Lonely.” The album reached #12 in the Billboard R&B album chart,
and peaked at #67 in the Billboard 200.[21] In regards to Phyllis Hyman, nobody
seemed to have questioned her death and looked for the Devil in the Details. If
anyone wanted her dead, it was Clive Davis. Queen Diva had been extremely vocal
and public in exposing Clive Davis as a high level pedophile.