Tony Bennett

Anthony Dominick Benedetto (born August 3, 1926), known professionally as Tony Bennett, is an American singer of time-honored pop standards, big band, show tunes, and jazz. He is also a painter, having created works below his birth broadcast that are upon permanent public display in several institutions. He is the founder of the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Astoria, Queens, New York.

Bennett began singing at an yet to be age. He fought in the resolution stages of World War II as a U.S. Army infantryman in the European Theater. Afterward, he developed his singing technique, signed once Columbia Records and had his first number-one popular appearance with "Because of You" in 1951. Several tracks such as "Rags to Riches" followed in to the lead 1953. He subsequently refined his right of entry to encompass jazz singing. He reached an artistic zenith in the late 1950s later than albums such as The Beat of My Heart and Basie Swings, Bennett Sings. In 1962, Bennett recorded his signature song, "I Left My Heart in San Francisco". His career and personal computer graphics experienced an extended downturn during the zenith of the stone music era. Bennett staged a comeback in the late 1980s and 1990s, putting out gold book albums another time and expanding his reach to the MTV generation while keeping his musical style intact.

Bennett continued to Make popular and systematically praised put it on into the 21st century. He attracted applause for his collaborations bearing in mind Lady Gaga, which began subsequent to the album Cheek to Cheek (2014); the two performers toured together to shout out the album throughout 2014 and 2015. With the release of the duo's second album, Love for Sale (2021), Bennett broke the individual collection for the longest span of top-10 albums upon the Billboard 200 chart for any vivacious artist; his first top-10 scrap book was I Left My Heart in San Francisco in 1962. Bennett after that broke the Guinness World Record for the oldest person to pardon an album of additional material, at the age of 95 years and 60 days.

Bennett has amassed numerous accolades throughout his career, including 19 Grammy Awards (including a Lifetime Achievement Award presented in 2001) and two Primetime Emmy Awards. He was named an NEA Jazz Master and a Kennedy Center Honoree. Bennett has sold on zenith of 50 million archives worldwide.

In February 2021, it was revealed that Bennett was diagnosed afterward Alzheimer's weakness in 2016. Due to the slow progression of his illness, he continued to record, tour, and be in until his retirement from concert performances in August 2021 due to monster challenges.