Bennett, known for performing with singers from Frank Sinatra to Lady Gaga, has sold millions of records worldwide and won 20 Grammys
Legendary singer Tony Bennett has died aged 96. Bennett, known for performing with singers from Frank Sinatra to Lady Gagasold millions of records worldwide and won 20 Grammys, including a lifetime achievement awardduring his career.
Born on August 3, 1926 in Queens, New York, to parents John and Anna, young Tony and his older siblings, John and Mary, grew up with their mother after his father died when he was just 10 years old. As a child, he loved to sing and draw. As he grew up, he developed his love for music by listening to artists such as Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong and James Durante.
During his teenage years, Bennett sang while also working as a waiterbefore enlisting in the army during World War II.
Father of four children, Bennett was married three times. At his wedding to his first wife, Patricia Beech, in 1952, around two thousand female fans reportedly gathered outside the ceremony, dressed in black as a sign of mourning.
The couple had two sonsDanny and Dae, before they broke up. Bennett married actress Sandra Grantwith which got the daughters Joanna and Antonia, while in 2007 married Susan Crow, now Susan Benedetto. And among the many awards for his music, Bennett was also honored with the Martin Luther King Center’s Salute to Greatness Award for his anti-racism effortsafter joining the activist in the 1965 civil rights march.
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Bennett released his first album in 1952 and continued to is on the US charts in each subsequent decade of his life. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2016however the singer he faced his adventure with the disease positively. “Life is a gift, even with Alzheimer’s“, he had written on social media. He went on to perform his final concerts, alongside Lady Gaga, later that year.
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The same Sinatra once described Tony Bennett as “the best singer at work” in a 1965 interview. The legendary singer always called Bennett “child”even in old age.
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Bennett didn’t tell his own story when he performed – he let the music do the talking. Unlike his friend and mentor Sinatra, he performed a song rather than embodying it.
If his singing and public life lacked the high drama of Sinatra, Bennett charmed with an easy, genial manner and an unusually rich and durable voice.
“A tenor who sings like a baritone”, he was saying about himselfa skill that made him a master at “stroking” a ballad. “I like to entertain the audience, making them forget their problems” he told the Associated Press in 2006. “I think people are moved if they hear something that’s sincere and honest and maybe has a little sense of humor… I like to make people feel good when I sing».
Not only did it “survive” the rise of rock music, but it lasted so long and so well that it gained new fans and collaborators, some of whom are young enough to be his grandchildren. In 2014, at the age of 88, Bennett broke his own record as the oldest living artist with an album at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart for “Cheek to Cheek”his duets with Lady G.
His relationship with Winehouse was captured in the Oscar-nominated documentary Amy, which shows Bennett patiently encouraging the insecure young singer during her performance of Body and Soul.
His latest album, 2021’s ‘Love for Sale’, contained duets with her Lady Gaga in the self-titled song, “Night and Day” and other Porter songs.
Regarding his choices in music, Bennett summed up his artistic attitude in a 2010 interview: “I don’t stay trendy for the sake of major labels, I don’t follow fashion. I never sing a poorly written song. In the 1920’s and 1930’s there was a renaissance in music which I think is analogous to the artistic Renaissance. Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer and many others created some of the best songs ever written. These are the classics and are finally not treated as light music. This is classical music».
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