Tony Bennett



Tony Bennett, born Anthony Dominick Benedetto ( Astoria ( Queens , New York City ), August 31926 ) is an Americansinger , both popular and jazz music .

His artistic career has been running for 55 years, with 17 Grammy Awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001, he had a respectable record. He is considered the last great crooner from the golden era of the genre, for example, Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, and is a leading interpreter of the Great American Songbook .

Sinatra and Bennett were mutual admirers, Sinatra said in 1965 in an interview with Life magazine even: " For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business ".

Bennett's most famous song is undoubtedly I left my heart in San Francisco (Grammy Award for Record of the Year, 1962).



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[ hide ]  *1 Biography  ==Biography [ edit] == Already at the age of 10 he performed at celebrations to mark the opening of the Triborough Bridge in his hometown. Until 1942 he studied at the High School of Industrial Art (with majors music and painting ), then he deserved-to financially support his family, living as a "singing waiter" in Italian restaurants in Queens.
 * 1.1 Literature
 * 2 Discography
 * 2.1 Albums
 * 2.2 Singles
 * 2.3 DVDs
 * 3 External links

In 1944 he was in the army and it was during the last year of the Second World War, stationed in Germany, where he helped in the liberation of a concentration camp inLandsberg .

After the war, he sang with a military band under the stage name Joe Bari . After his return to the U.S. he retained initially this name, and he was able, on the bel canto, worked in numerous smaller music clubs and performed at the opening for Pearl Bailey , where he Bob Hope was discovered and fell on his advise now Tony Bennettcalled.

In 1950 he recorded a demo and was subsequently by Mitch Miller contracted to Columbia Records . Miller advised him, Frank Sinatra (who just left Columbia Records) not to imitate, but with its own sound to come. Therefore, Bennett began his career as croonerzanger with popular commercial music. His first big hit was " Because of You (1951) "in an arrangement by Percy Faith and produced by Mitch Miller. The song gained popularity because in many jukeboxes were found and ended up in first place in the list of top hits and held that place 10 weeks solid. There were more than one million copies. Later that year brought Bennett Hank Williams ' "Cold, Cold Heart" in a special package from, which also reached a top position, and not only Hank Williams, but the country music in particular, introduced to a wider audience. Bennett's recording of Blue Velvet was so popular that it attracted hordes of screaming teenage fans at concerts at the Paramount Theater in New York. Bennett had to give seven concerts a day (from 10:30 am) to enable them to attend his concerts. During all his fans the opportunity

In 1952, Bennett married art student and jazz lover Patricia Beech, whom he a year earlier during a nightclub performance in Cleveland ( Ohio had met.) During the wedding ceremony at Saint Patrick's Cathedral thousand mourners gathered outside, the black-clad female fans. The couple had two sons.

Several important standards and veelgecoverde hits were introduced by Tony Bennett: The good life (English version), The Best Is Yet to Come, and movie song The Shadow of Your Smile (both won a Grammy "Song of the Year" as an Academy Award ) , and I Left My Heart in San Francisco .

After gold successes in the 50s and 60s, the commercial Bennett fared less well in the 70 and 80. He faced contractual, financial and personal problems.

In the late seventies went Bennett, except to money problems, too emotionally demanding, due to the death of his mother. As a result, he became more and more drug use.This drug use almost cost him his life, after he after taking an overdose of cocaine fainted in his bath and nearly drowned. However, he was rescued just in time by his then wife, who found him and brought to the hospital. Thanks to his son's career was again picked up the money problems were solved by Bennett and he had stopped using drugs.

Less successful in this period, however, the collaboration with the legendary jazz pianist Bill Evans considered an artistic highlight: The Tony Bennett / Bill Evans Album (1975) and Together Again (Bennett and Evans album) (1976). Only accompanied by piano, Bennett will be the purest form of his singing and interpretations.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">As of 1990 there was a comeback in his career, his albums won Grammy Awards again, and in 1994 he scored a new audience thanks to an MTV Unplugged session - the live album was awarded the Grammy Awards in 1995 as Album of the Year .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">The singer is known as a philanthropist, and is a gifted painter.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Al Bennett is an excellent crooner (intimate, soft style of singing), he is also known for his powerful voice - with its trained bel canto voice needed in the era before the microphone was introduced in concert halls.These vocal training makes it possible for these nineteen to sing powerfully. Still

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In September 2011, Bennett released Duets II out, a sequel to his first duet album, in honor of his 85th birthday. This CD, with numbers including Amy Winehouse , Norah Jones and Michael Buble, Bennett was the oldest living artist with a Billboard 200 number one position. This record was the 96-year-old in September 2013 Fred Stobaugh broken. The first single Body and Soul, this was a collaboration with singer Amy Winehouse, it would be the last recording before her death, this duet won a Grammy Award . For the second single, he enlisted the help of Lady Gaga : The Lady Is A Tramp . Given the number of critics rave reviews.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">On February 12, 2012 he won his 15th and 16th Grammys during the 54th presentation of the music awards.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Bennett was also good friends with the Dutch comedian Toon Hermans . ===References <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:'HelveticaNeue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">[ edit] === ==Discography <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:'HelveticaNeue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">[ edit] == ===Albums <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:'HelveticaNeue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">[ edit] === ===Singles <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:'HelveticaNeue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">[ edit] === ===DVDs <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:'HelveticaNeue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">[ Edit] ===
 * Bennett, Tony. Tony Bennett: What My Heart Has Seen . Rizzoli, 1996. ISBN 0-8478-1972-8 .
 * Bennett, Tony, with Will Friedwald. The Good Life: The Autobiography Of Tony Bennett . Pocket Books, 1998. ISBN 0-671-02469-8 .
 * Bennett, Tony, with Robert Sullivan. Tony Bennett in the Studio: A Life of Art & Music . Sterling, 2007. ISBN 1-4027-4767-5 .