{"id":1979363,"date":"2023-07-21T10:48:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T14:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/legendary-singer-tony-bennett-dead-at-96\/"},"modified":"2023-07-21T10:48:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T14:48:45","slug":"legendary-singer-tony-bennett-dead-at-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/legendary-singer-tony-bennett-dead-at-96\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Bennett, iconic singer, passes away at 96."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flegendary-singer-tony-bennett-dead-at-96%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1979363&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Music Legend Tony Bennett Passes Away at 96<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/music\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Music<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  industry \u200dlegend \u2064 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/celebrities\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tony Bennett<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  \u2063has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/death\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">died<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  at the age of\u2063 96 \u2014 just \u200dtwo weeks shy of \u200chis \u200c97th \u2064birthday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bennett\u2019s publicist <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/tony-bennett-dies-c3b3a7e2360449fb936a38794c7c3266\">confirmed<\/a> his death to The Associated \u2062Press, noting that the hitmaker \u2064passed away in\u2062 his hometown of New \u2064York\u2063 City.\u200d Bennett\u2063 had been diagnosed with \u200bAlzheimer\u2019s disease in 2016, but had continued to perform and record through 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As one \u2064of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/legendary-singer-tony-bennett-dead-at-96\/\" title=\"Tony Bennett, iconic singer, passes away at 96.\">preeminent\u200b popular singers<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nbc-poll-shows-gop-becoming-party-of-blue-collar-workers\/\" title=\"NBC Poll Shows GOP Becoming Party Of Blue-Collar Workers\">mid-20th century<\/a>, \u2062Bennett said \u2062his goal was to create \u200b\u201ca\u200d hit catalog rather than hit records.\u201d To that end, he released more\u200d than \u206370 \u200calbums over the course of his \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-bill-maher-televisions-last-true-liberal\/\" title=\"Is Bill Maher Television\u2019s Last True Liberal?\">decades-long career<\/a>. One of\u2063 the best-loved songs in Bennett\u2019s repertoire was\u2064 the 1962\u200d classic, \u201cI Left My \u2064Heart in\u2064 San Francisco.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">His\u2062 dedication to music earned the singer more than 19 Grammy Awards \u2062and worldwide recognition as an industry sensation. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI\u200b enjoy entertaining the audience, making them\u2062 forget their problems,\u201d he told The Associated \u2062Press during a 2006 interview. \u201cI think people \u2026 are \u2064touched if they hear something that\u2019s sincere and honest and maybe has a little sense of humor. \u2026 I\u2064 just like to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/speaking-truth-to-power-magazine-reveals-how-journos-are-rooting-for-wh-press-secretary-jen-psaki\/\" title=\"Speaking Truth to Power: Magazine Reveals How Journos Are \u2018Rooting\u2019 for WH Press Secretary Jen Psaki\">make people feel good<\/a> when I perform.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bennett was well \u200dregarded by his contemporaries. One\u200b of the most glowing reviews came from industry great Frank Sinatra, who said \u200cduring a 1965 Life magazine interview, \u200d\u201cFor my\u2063 money,\u200d Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business. He excites me when I\u200d watch him. He moves me. \u200dHe\u2019s the \u2064singer who gets across what the composer has in \u200bmind, and probably a little\u200b more.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1690029339199000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1aBZKXZOsvkW3aRCKp8ThD\">CLICK HERE TO GET\u2062 THE DAILYWIRE+\u2062 APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fans were always impressed by Bennett\u2019s enduring adaptability and popularity. The \u200cartist was known for being a jazz singer, but also thrived \u2062in other mediums \u200dand was willing to collaborate with all\u200d sorts of artists. \u2063He became a sensation\u200d in the 1950s and \u201960s, surged in popularity \u200cagain in the\u2064 \u201990s,\u2062 and found new fans in recent years after he recorded with \u200cseveral \u200ccontemporary artists. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cCheek to Cheek,\u201d his \u20632014 duets\u2062 project with Lady Gaga, earned him the record as the oldest living performer with a number one album on the Billboard 200 chart. The singer\u200c was 88 at the\u2063 time. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bennett is\u2064 survived by his wife, Susan \u200cBenedetto, \u2064sons \u2062Danny and Dae Bennett, daughters Johanna \u2064Bennett and Antonia Bennett, and nine grandchildren.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music icon Tony Bennett, aged 96, passed away in New York City, two weeks before his 97th birthday. Despite being diagnosed with Alzheimer&#8217;s in 2016, Bennett persisted in his musical career. 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