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Anthony Dominick Benedetto, known professionally as Tony Bennett, was an American jazz and traditional pop singer. He received many accolades, including 20 Grammy Awards, a Lifetime Achievement Award, and two Primetime Emmy Awards. Bennett was named a National Endowments for the Arts Jazz Master and a Kennedy Center Honoree. He founded the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Astoria, Queens, New Y…
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Born 3 August 1926 · Died 21 July 2023 · Q296729
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Public attention spiked: 7,594 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.8× the usual 1,578, with 0 article edits. Coverage that week: “Tony Bennett’s Timelessness” (The Wall Street Journal).
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The Wall Street Journal: Tony Bennett’s Timelessness
Public attention spiked: 11,203 Wikipedia readers in one day, 7.1× the usual 1,578, with 1 article edits. Editors noted: Reformat 1 archive link. Wayback Medic 2.5 per WP:JUDI
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Public attention spiked: 15,743 Wikipedia readers in one day, 10× the usual 1,578, with 4 article edits. Editors noted: Clean up/copyedit
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Published video “Tony Bennett, Mariah Carey - When Do the Bells Ring for Me (Audio)”.
Published video “Tony Bennett - Mood Indigo (Audio)”.
CBS News: Tony Bennett's daughters file new lawsuit against their brother over the singer's estate
Page Six: Tony Bennett’s daughters file new lawsuit against their brother over late father’s estate
The New York Times: Tony Bennett has nothing to apologize for in a legendary career, but he should answer for its ending
New York Daily News: Tony Bennett’s daughters sue half-brother over crooner’s estate
The Guardian: Tony Bennett’s daughters sue brother over late singer’s estate
The Guardian: kd lang on Tony Bennett: ‘It was a salve for society to see an older man and a young dyke in a happy relationship’
The Guardian: From Frank Sinatra to Lady Gaga: Tony Bennett’s greatest duets
The Guardian: I left my art in San Francisco: Tony Bennett interviewed – archive, January 1972
The Guardian: Amid pop’s revolutions, Tony Bennett was a steady, classy constant
The Guardian: Tony Bennett, US singer with seven-decade career, dies aged 96
The Guardian: Tony Bennett's most memorable duets – video obituary
The Guardian: Tony Bennett – a life in pictures
East Bay Times: Tony Bennett, beloved singer who ‘left my heart in San Francisco,’ dies at 96
Died 2023-07-21.
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Following a seven-year battle with Alzheimer's disease
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“I've taken stuff from people, too. You know though, if you steal from one person, you're just a thief. But if you steal from everyone, that's research.”
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for Love for Sale (2022).
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On CBS, which contained select performances from the two final concerts
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Published video “Tony Bennett - My Favorite Things (Official Video)”.
The Guardian: Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga: Love for Sale review – a fond farewell
Released album “Love for Sale”.
The Guardian: Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett: Love for Sale review – jazz interloper livens up crooner’s swansong
Published video “Tony Bennett - There Will Never Be Another You (Audio)”.
Published video “Tony Bennett - Rags to Riches (Audio) ft. Elton John”.
Published video “Tony Bennett - The Heart That Broke Was Mine (Audio)”.
Published video “Tony Bennett - Are You Havin' Any Fun? (Audio) ft. Elvis Costello”.
Published video “Tony Bennett, k.d. lang - Because of You (Audio)”.
Published video “Tony Bennett - All For You (Audio)”.
Published video “Tony Bennett - Gone With The Wind (Audio)”.
Published video “Tony Bennett - Let's Fall In Love (Audio)”.
The Guardian: Tony Bennett, 95, retires from live shows on doctors’ orders
Nine days after his 95th birthday, Bennett's retirement from concerts was announced by his son and manager Danny Bennett
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The Guardian: Tony Bennett, 94, diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease
“s was mainly affecting his father”
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The Guardian: Tony Bennett review – a poignant voice for the ages
Entertainment Tonight: Tony Bennett
Released album “Love Is Here to Stay”.
Awarded Gershwin Prize (2017).
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The Guardian: Tony Bennett: ‘I can’t say my wife and I didn’t notice the 40-year age gap when we met’
NBC televised a special concert in honor of his 90th birthday, called Tony Bennett Celebrates 90: The Best Is Yet to Come
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Shortly after his 90th birthday, Bennett was honored by the unveiling of an 8-foot tall statue in his likeness in front of the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for The Silver Lining: The Songs of Jerome Kern (2016).
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Though he continued to perform and record until the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020
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Bennett, joined by the choir from the Frank Sinatra School, sang "America the Beautiful" before Game 5 of the baseball World Series between the Kansas City Royals and New York Mets at Citi Field
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Released album “The Silver Lining: The Songs of Jerome Kern”.
Released an album of songs composed by Jerome Kern, featuring Bill Charlap on piano, called The Silver Lining: The Songs of Jerome Kern
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for Cheek to Cheek (2015).
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The Guardian: Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga review – cheeky fun from jazz royalty and pop's Mother Monster
Released album “Cheek to Cheek”.
Bennett performed "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" in front of more than 100,000 fans at a City Hall ceremony commemorating the 2012 World Series victory by the San Francisco Giants
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Released album “Viva Duets”.
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for Duets II (2012).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for Body and Soul (2012).
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Released album “Duets II”.
Awarded New Jersey Hall of Fame (2011).
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“by Tim Clodfelter, in Winston-Salem Journal (5 September 2010) == About Tony Bennett == A lifelong liberal Democrat, Mr. Bennett participated in the Selma-to-Montgomery civil rights march in 1965, and, along with Harry Belafonte, Sammy Davis Jr. and others, performed at the Stars for Freedom rally on the City of St. Jude campus on the outskirts of Montgomery on March 24, the night before the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the address that came to be known as the”
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Bennett performed at the conclusion of the final Macworld Conference & Expo for Apple Inc
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Released album “A Swingin’ Christmas”.
Bennett made two appearances with Billy Joel singing "New York State of Mind" at the final concerts given at Shea Stadium, and in October released the album A Swingin' Christmas with the Count Basie Big Band, for which h
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Bennett married Crow in a private civil ceremony in New York that was witnessed by Mario Cuomo, the former governor of New York
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Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program for Tony Bennett: An American Classic (2007).
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Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Special for Tony Bennett: An American Classic (2007).
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Awarded International Civil Rights Walk of Fame (2007).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for Duets: An American Classic (2007).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals for For Once in My Life (2007).
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Another book involving his paintings, Tony Bennett in the Studio: A Life of Art & Music, became a bestseller among art books
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Released album “Duets: An American Classic”.
Bennett turned 80 years old
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Awarded NEA Jazz Masters (2006).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for The Art of Romance (2006).
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Bennett was the recipient of a Kennedy Center Honor
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Awarded Kennedy Center Honors (2005).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for A Wonderful World (2004).
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Released album “The Art of Romance”.
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for Playin' with My Friends: Bennett Sings the Blues (2003).
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Released album “A Wonderful World”.
Q magazine named Bennett in its list of the "50 Bands To See Before You Die"
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Released album “Hallmark Presents Christmas with Tony Bennett and the London Symphony Orchestra”.
Released album “Playin’ With My Friends: Bennett Sings the Blues”.
Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2001).
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It was ranked 23rd on an RIAA/NEA list of the most historically significant Songs of the 20th Century
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Now shuttered due to the downturn of major label budgets combined with skyrocketing overhead
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Awarded Library of Congress Living Legend (2000).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for Bennett Sings Ellington: Hot & Cool (2000).
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Released album “Tony Bennett”.
Released album “Bennett Sings Ellington: Hot & Cool”.
Released album “Sings Rodgers & Hart Songs”.
Released album “The Playground”.
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for Tony Bennett on Holiday (1998).
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Bennett performed on the final day of a mud-soaked Glastonbury Festival in an immaculate suit and tie, his whole set on this occasion consisting of songs about the weather
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Released album “40 Years: The Artistry of Tony Bennett, Volume 3”.
Released album “40 Years: The Artistry of Tony Bennett, Volume 2”.
Released album “40 Years: The Artistry of Tony Bennett, Volume 1”.
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for Here's to the Ladies (1997).
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Released album “On Holiday”.
Was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001, and received a lifetime achievement award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) in 2002
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Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program for Live by Request (1996).
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Released album “Jazz Masters”.
Released album “Song from the Heart TONY BENNETT”.
Released album “Songs From the Heart: A Unique Collection of Evergreen Favourites”.
Released album “The Very Thought of You”.
Released album “Here’s to the Ladies”.
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for MTV Unplugged (Tony Bennett album) (1995).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Album of the Year for MTV Unplugged (Tony Bennett album) (1995).
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Awarded MusiCares Person of the Year (1995).
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Released album “Something”.
Released album “My Best to You”.
Released album “The Classic Tony Bennett, Volume One”.
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for Steppin' Out (1994).
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Released album “I Left My Heart in San Francisco / I Wanna Be Around”.
Released album “Life Is a Song”.
Released album “Tony Bennett & Count Basie Big Band”.
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for Perfectly Frank (1993).
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Released album “Sings for You: Forty All-Time Favorites”.
Bennett played a series of benefit concerts organized by alternative rock radio stations around the country
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Released album “Tony Bennett: His Greatest Hits and Finest Performances”.
Released album “Steppin’ Out”.
Released album “Night And Day”.
Released album “The Essence of Tony Bennett”.
Released album “Perfectly Frank”.
Released album “His 28 Greatest Hits”.
Released album “Forty Years: The Artistry of Tony Bennett”.
Released album “The Special Magic of Tony Bennett”.
Released album “The Jazz Collector Edition: Tony Bennett with Count Basie”.
Released album “Astoria: Portrait of the Artist”.
Released album “The Good Life”.
Released album “Tony Bennett with Count Basie”.
Released album “Tony Bennett with the Count Basie Orchestra”.
Released album “Christmas Favorites”.
Released album “Count Basie featuring Tony Bennett”.
Released album “Bennett / Berlin”.
Released album “Jazz”.
Released album “16 Most Requested Songs”.
Released album “Chicago”.
Released album “The Art of Excellence”.
Bennett called his sons Danny and Dae for help
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Released album “Tony Bennett / The McPartlands And Friends Make Beautiful Music”.
Released album “Together Again”.
Released album “Tony Bennett Sings... More Great Rodgers & Hart”.
Released album “Tony Bennett Sings 10 Rodgers & Hart Songs”.
Released album “The Very Best Of”.
Released album “The Tony Bennett / Bill Evans Album”.
Released album “Life Is Beautiful”.
Released album “Listen Easy”.
Released album “Summer of ’42”.
Released album “The Good Things in Life”.
Released album “With Love”.
Released album “Love Story”.
Released album “Tony Sings the Great Hits of Today”.
Won Bronze Medallion (1969).
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Patricia sued him for divorce on grounds of adultery
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Released album “I’ve Gotta Be Me”.
Released album “Snowfall: The Tony Bennett Christmas Album”.
Released album “Yesterday I Heard the Rain”.
Released album “Tony Makes It Happen!”.
Released album “For Once in My Life”.
Released album “Movie Song Album”.
Released album “A Time for Love”.
But his commercial fortunes were clearly starting to decline
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Released album “Tony’s Greatest Hits, Volume III”.
Their marriage a victim of Bennett's spending too much time on the road, among other factors
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Released album “If I Ruled the World: Songs for the Jet Set”.
Bennett and his wife Patricia separated in 1965, their marriage a victim of Bennett's spending too much time on the road, among other factors.
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Released album “When Lights Are Low”.
Released album “Who Can I Turn To”.
Released album “The Many Moods of Tony”.
Awarded Grammy Award for Record of the Year for I Left My Heart in San Francisco (1963).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for I Left My Heart in San Francisco (1963).
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Released album “This Is All I Ask”.
Released album “I Wanna Be Around”.
Bennett released his recording of "I Left My Heart in San Francisco", a decade-old but little-known song originally written for an opera singer
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Released album “At Carnegie Hall Recorded Live June 9, 1962”.
Released album ““Mr. Broadway”: Tony’s Greatest Broadway Hits”.
Released album “I Left My Heart in San Francisco”.
Bennett recorded his signature song, "I Left My Heart in San Francisco"
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Released album “My Heart Sings”.
Released album “I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face”.
Released album “Tony Bennett Sings for Two”.
Released album “Sings a String of Harold Arlen”.
Released album “Alone Together”.
Released album “To My Wonderful One”.
Released album “Hometown, My Town”.
Released album “Count Basie and His Orchestra Swings / Tony Bennett Sings”.
Bennett would again fill in for The Perry Como Show, this time alongside Teresa Brewer and Jaye P
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Released album “Tony’s Greatest Hits”.
Released album “Long Ago and Far Away”.
Released album “Blue Velvet”.
Released album “Tony”.
Ralph Sharon became Bennett's pianist, arranger, and musical director, replacing Wayne
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Released album “The Beat of My Heart”.
Released album “Cloud 7”.
Released album “Alone at Last with Tony Bennett”.
The dynamic of the music industry changed and it became harder and harder for existing pop singers to do well commercially
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The guitarist Chuck Wayne became Bennett's musical director
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Released album “Because of You”.
Bennett married Ohio art student and jazz fan Patricia Beech, whom he had met the previous year after a nightclub performance in Cleveland
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And stayed there for ten weeks, selling over a million copies
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Bennett cut a demo of "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" and was signed to the major label Columbia Records by Mitch Miller
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Pearl Bailey recognized Benedetto's talent and asked him to open for her in Greenwich Village
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For a small outfit called Leslie Records, but they failed to sell
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Benedetto studied at the American Theatre Wing on the GI Bill
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Born 1926-08-03.
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John had emigrated from Podargoni, a rural eastern district of the southern Italian city of Reggio Calabria; he was a member of the local ethnic Greek community (Griko people)
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