Frank Sinatra<\/a> to Lady Gaga \u2013 sold millions of records around the world and won 20 Grammys including a lifetime achievement award throughout his glittering career, which saw him perform and record after he was diagnosed with Alzheimer\u2019s in 2016.<\/p>\nHis publicist Sylvia Weiner confirmed the news of his passing on Friday (21.07.23), and said he died two weeks before his birthday.<\/p>\n
The singer\u2019s cause of death has not been shared but it is understood he passed away at his home in New York City. <\/p>\n
Considered one of the America\u2019s last great crooners, he released his first album in 1952 when he was in his mid-20s and charted in the US in every subsequent decade of his life.<\/p>\n
\nHe went public with his dementia diagnosis in 2021, declaring on social media: \u201cLife is a gift \u2013 even with Alzheimer\u2019s.\u201d <\/p>\n
\nTony went on to perform his final shows, alongside Lady Gaga, later that year. <\/p>\n
\nHis career renaissance saw him land a No1 album at age 85. <\/p>\n
\nTony\u2019s most famous peer Frank Sinatra called him the greatest popular singer in the world. <\/p>\n
\nVariety said: \u201cHis recordings \u2013 most of them made for Columbia Records, which signed him in 1950 \u2013 were characterised by ebullience, immense warmth, vocal clarity and emotional openness.\u201d <\/p>\n
\nThe publication also hailed him as a \u201cgifted and technically accomplished interpreter of the Great American Songbook\u201d. <\/p>\n
\nAfter being most active as a recording artist from 1949, and becoming one of the top pop performers in the 1950s and early \u201960s, Tony saw his career surge again in the 1990s and into the millennium under the management of his son Danny. <\/p>\n
\nHe memorably duetted on the \u2018Body and Soul\u2019 with Amy Winehouse, who considered him one of her heroes, and released a full-length duet album with Diana Krall and a pair of recordings with Lady Gaga. <\/p>\n
\nHis last public appearance came with Gaga, 37, at Radio City Music Hall in August 2021, two months before his last release, the Bennett-Gaga set \u2018Love For Sale\u2019 \u2013 a sequel to their chart-topping 2014 collaboration \u2018Cheek to Cheek\u2019. <\/p>\n
\nHis \u2018MTV Unplugged\u2019 album of 1994 was released when Tony was 67 and won a Grammy as album of the year. <\/p>\n
\nHe was a Kennedy Center Honoree in 2005 and a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master in 2006. <\/p>\n
\nBorn Anthony Dominick Benedetto in Astoria, Queens, New York on 3 August, 1926, to Italian immigrant parents, he grew up in a poverty-stricken working-class household with his dad toiling as a greengrocer while his mum was a seamstress. <\/p>\n
\nHe began singing as a child, and studied music and his other lifelong love, painting, at New York\u2019s High School of Industrial Art. <\/p>\n
\nHe was drafted aged 18 in 1944 and served in World War II\u2019s European theatre, doing combat infantry duty and liberating a German concentration camp. <\/p>\n
\nTony then studied voice with Miriam Spier in the American Theatre Wing and an appearance on Arthur Godfrey\u2019s talent show was one of his biggest breaks. <\/p>\n
\nSinger Pearl Bailey hired him as a club opener on the back of his performance, while Bob Hope was in the Greenwich Village venue to catch the performance. <\/p>\n
\nTaking the youthful vocalist under his wing, Bob rechristened him Tony Bennett and hired him for his stage show at New York\u2019s Paramount Theatre. <\/p>\n
\nHis soaring rendition of \u2018Rags to Riches\u2019 from 1953 was memorably used in the opening credits of Martin Scorsese\u2019s 1990 gangster epic \u2018Goodfellas\u2019. <\/p>\n
\nThe crooner is survived by his wife Susan Benedetto, his two sons, Danny and Dae Bennett, as well as his daughters Johanna Bennett and Antonia Bennett and nine grandchildren.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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