{"id":1980191,"date":"2023-07-22T08:05:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T12:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tony-bennett-legendary-american-singer-dies-at-age-96\/"},"modified":"2023-07-22T08:06:32","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T12:06:32","slug":"tony-bennett-legendary-american-singer-dies-at-age-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tony-bennett-legendary-american-singer-dies-at-age-96\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Bennett, iconic US 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\">18<\/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%2Ftony-bennett-legendary-american-singer-dies-at-age-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=1980191&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--><div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>Legendary Singer Tony Bennett Passes Away at 96<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By Bill Trott<\/p>\n<p>(Reuters) -Tony \u200dBennett, the smooth American singer who had an enduring hit with \u201cI \u2062Left My Heart in San Francisco\u201d and remained \u2064perpetually cool enough to win over\u200b younger generations of fans well into the 21st century, died\u200c on Friday,\u200c his publicist said. <\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px;  text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Bennett was 96. He \u2063died at his home in New \u200bYork City of age-related causes, his publicist Sylvia Weiner \u200csaid in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>No\u2062 less than Frank Sinatra called the former singing waiter \u201cthe\u200d best singer in the business\u201d\u2064 after he \u2062became \u2062a \u200bstar in the 1950s. Bennett went on to win \u206420 Grammy awards, including a lifetime achievement award.<\/p>\n<p><strong>President \u200bJoe Biden on Friday \u2063said Bennett\u2019s\u2063 life was \u201clegendary.\u201d He added: \u201cTony Bennett didn\u2019t just sing the classics \u2062\u2013 he himself \u200bwas an American classic.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The older \u2064Bennett\u200b grew, \u200cthe more diverse his \u200bcollaborators\u200b became. Bennett was in his late 80s when he recorded\u200c a 2014 album of duets with the outre \u200bLady \u200bGaga and went \u2064on \u200da world\u200c tour with her in \u200d2015. Partners on\u200c his popular \u201cDuet\u201d albums ranged from former Beatle Paul McCartney and soul queen Aretha Franklin to country star Willie Nelson and U2\u2019s Bono.<\/p>\n<p>Bennett marked his 90th birthday in 2016 with a party\u2064 in New York that \u2062drew celebrities \u200csuch as Bruce Willis \u200dand John Travolta. The\u2062 Empire State Building put on a light show\u200d in his honor. He also published a memoir in\u2064 2016 titled \u201cJust Getting Started.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bennett\u200c revealed in early 2021 that he was diagnosed with Alzheimer\u2019s disease in\u2064 2016, but he kept recording after the diagnosis and later tweeted, \u201cLife is a \u2062gift \u2013 even\u2062 with Alzheimer\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Due to his illness, Bennett retired from performing\u200c after his \u2063concerts\u200c at New York\u2019s Radio City Music\u2064 Hall on Aug. 3 and 5, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Bennett\u2019s \u2064career was\u2064 filled with highs\u200b and lows. <\/p>\n<p>He was in his 50s in the late 1970s when he found himself facing a decaying marriage, a cocaine habit, a $2\u200b million tax debt and limited\u200c career prospects. \u2062He pulled out of it by turning over \u2064his \u200dmanagement to his son Danny, who propelled his father to new\u2062 heights \u2064of \u200bpopularity by introducing him to younger generations.<\/p>\n<p>DISCOVERED BY BOB HOPE<\/p>\n<p>Before\u2062 that, Bennett had been one of the most popular \u200dsingers of the 1950s \u2013 thanks\u2062 to his discovery by comedian Bob Hope \u2013 until the rise of rock \u200b\u2018n\u2019 roll undermined him. He rebounded\u200b from that by aiming at a more \u200cmature audience.<\/p>\n<p>Through it all, Bennett maintained a \u2062cool, smiling demeanor, and tried to stay faithful to the\u2064 material he loved\u200d best. He always thought of himself as a jazz singer.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Dominick Benedetto was born Aug. 3, 1926, in New York City. He was only 10 when his father died, \u2063and his mother struggled as a dressmaker to support him. \u2062As a boy, his love of music was matched only\u200d by \u2064his interest in painting. He would be\u2063 a serious painter throughout \u200bhis life and sold his works under his \u2062given name.<\/p>\n<p>After serving as an infantryman\u200b in \u200cEurope during World War Two, Bennett\u200d was \u200dsinging under the name Joe Bari when Hope \u2062caught his act in New York\u2019s Greenwich Village. The \u200ccomedian\u200c was so impressed \u200bthat he \u200dhad the singer change his name to Tony Bennett and used him as an opening\u2063 act.<\/p>\n<p>Bennett signed with Columbia Records and the \u200dresult \u2063was a string\u200d of pop hits such as \u201cBecause of You,\u201d \u200ba cover \u2063of the Hank Williams country standard \u201cCold, Cold\u2064 Heart,\u201d \u201cBlue Velvet\u201d and \u201cRags to Riches.\u201d Legions of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tony-bennett-legendary-american-singer-dies-at-age-96\/\" title=\"Tony Bennett, iconic US singer, passes away at 96.\">screaming teenage girls packed<\/a> his shows.<\/p>\n<p>As the rock\u2063 era\u2062 began \u2063in the \u2064mid-1950s, \u2064Bennett moved away from pop songs toward jazz, working with some of \u200dthe top names in that genre and recording\u200b \u201cBasie Swings, Bennett Sings\u201d with the Count Basie \u200dOrchestra.<\/p>\n<p>He \u200cpulled\u2063 his material \u2062from jazz and the works of writers like Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer, George and \u2064Ira Gershwin and\u200d Richard Rodgers and\u200b Lorenz\u2062 Hart.<\/p>\n<p>Singer\u2062 and activist Harry Belafonte persuaded Bennett, a champion\u200b of human rights, to\u2064 take part in the civil rights march in Selma, Alabama, in 1965\u2063 led by Martin Luther King Jr. Belafonte died in\u200d April \u2063at age 96.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was \u200bdedicated to civil\u2064 and human rights and to the arts. He will live as long as we\u2064 remember\u200d him,\u201d U.S. civil \u200crights \u200dleader Jesse Jackson said on Twitter. <\/p>\n<p>LOST HEART<\/p>\n<p>In the next phase of his \u200ccareer, Bennett recorded \u201cI Left \u2062My Heart in San Francisco\u201d in 1962 \u2013\u200b a\u2062 tune by two \u2063little-known songwriters that\u2064 his musical director, pianist\u200d Ralph Sharon, had stashed away. It reached only No. 19 on \u2062the Billboard chart but became his signature song.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople ask me, \u2018Don\u2019t you \u2062get tired \u2064of\u2062 singing \u2062that song about San Francisco?&#8217;\u201d Bennett said in a Reuters\u200d interview.\u200c \u201cI say, \u2018Do you get tired of making love?&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2016 a statue\u2064 of Bennett was unveiled outside San Francisco\u2019s Fairmont Hotel, where Bennett\u200d first\u200c performed the song some 55 years before.<\/p>\n<p>When Danny Bennett \u2063revived his father\u2019s career in the late \u201970s, the singer\u200c reunited with Sharon, and his 1986 album \u201cThe \u200bArt of Excellence\u201d became his first chart album in 14 years. Through Danny\u2019s marketing, he was discovered by a youthful audience that found Bennett \u200dcool and he appeared often on the youth-oriented\u200b MTV television\u2064 network. His \u201cMTV Unplugged\u201d \u200dalbum won the top Grammy as album of the year in 1995, as well as best traditional pop\u2064 vocal performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTony Bennett has not just bridged the generation gap, he has\u200c demolished\u200b it,\u201d the New York Times wrote in 1994. \u201cHe has solidly \u200dconnected \u2063with a younger crowd weaned \u200don rock. And there\u200d have been no compromises.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His two \u201cDuets\u201d albums in 2006 and\u2062 2011 were hits and\u2062 brought him wide appreciation \u200damong younger listeners \u200bbecause of his collaborations with younger stars.<\/p>\n<p>They also appealed to millions of young people \u200cwith old classics such as \u201cStranger in Paradise,\u201d\u2063 \u201cThe \u200dWay You Look Tonight,\u201d \u201cRags to Riches,\u201d \u201cI Wanna Be Around,\u201d \u201cThe\u2064 Lady Is a Tramp\u201d \u200band \u201cBody and Soul.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A third album of \u200cduets \u2013 this one with stars\u2062 of Latin music \u2013 was released in 2012 and he recorded an\u2063 album with Lady Gaga in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2007 Bennett\u2062 married former teacher \u200cSusan Crow after an 18-year relationship. He had four children with his two \u200cprevious wives, Patricia Beech\u2062 and Sandra Grant.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Remembering Tony \u2062Bennett&#8217;s Legacy<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Hunter Biden\u2019s lawyers file a complaint \u2063against Marjorie Taylor Greene\u2063 while we\u200b say goodbye to Tony Bennett.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>One\u200d America\u2019s Bridget Bosco\u2062 spoke with Ben Pauling about the \u200cpower of storytelling in Sound of Freedom\u200c and his movie in \u2063the making, Dream, to show Americans the horror of child sex slavery.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Comedian and \u2063Political Commentator, Bobby Sausalito,\u200b discusses the latest in culture news \u2013 including Anthony Weiner\u2019s live meltdown, a \u2064golf protest \u200dand the continued Bud Light controversy.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Head of Pastors For\u2062 Trump and Pastor of Sheridan Church, discusses the latest on the continued campaign to stop \u200dPresident Trump and updates on J6 political prisoners.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>(Reuters)\u2064 -Audio-streaming platform Spotify Technology plans \u200bto raise the price \u200bof\u200d its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pastor-on-trump-trial-date-announcement-and-j6-political-prisoners\/\" title=\"Pastor comments on Trump trial date and J6 prisoners.\">ad-free premium \u2063monthly plan<\/a> by $1 in \u2062the United States,\u2026 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>By Diane Bartz and Krystal Hu WASHINGTON\/NEW YORK (Reuters) -AI companies including OpenAI, Alphabet and Meta\u2064 Platforms have made\u2063 voluntary \u200dcommitments to\u2026 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>LONDON (Reuters) -Microsoft\u2019s Activision Blizzard deal is back in the hands of Britain\u2019s antitrust regulator\u2063 after an \u200dappeals court granted an adjournment,\u2026 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>By\u2062 Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters)\u2062 -An American couple accused of laundering billions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency stolen from the 2016\u2026\u2062 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>at the age of 96, according to his publicist. 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