C + C Music Factory

In the early '90s as the creative team guiding C + C Music Factory, Robert Clivillés and David Cole personified the reemergence of the producer/songwriter as star in pop music. They also endured clashes with artists who felt that their work within this dance-pop collective hadn't been properly acknowledged.

Clivillés and Cole met in the mid-'80s at a Manhattan nightclub where Clivillés DJ'd while...