Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett | |
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Calvary Cemetery, Queens , New York City | |
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Years active | 1936–2021 |
Spouses | Patricia Beech
(m. 1952; div. 1971)Sandra Grant
(m. 1971; div. 1983)Susan Crow (m. 2007) |
Children | 4, including Antonia |
Musical career | |
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Website | www |
Military service | |
Service/ | United States Army |
Years of service | 1944–1946 |
Rank | Private first class |
Unit | 63rd Infantry Division |
Battles/wars |
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Awards | Bronze Star Medal |
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Anthony Dominick Benedetto (August 3, 1926 – July 21, 2023), 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 an NEA Jazz Master and a Kennedy Center Honoree and founded the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Astoria, Queens, New York.[1] He sold more than 50 million records worldwide and earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Bennett began singing at an early age. He fought in the final stages of World War II as a
Bennett continued to create popular and critically praised work into the 21st century. He attracted renewed acclaim late in his career for his collaboration with Lady Gaga, which began with the album Cheek to Cheek (2014); the two performers toured together to promote the album throughout 2014 and 2015. With the release of the duo's second album, Love for Sale (2021), Bennett broke the individual record for the longest run of a top-10 album on the Billboard 200 chart for any living artist; his first top-10 record was I Left My Heart in San Francisco in 1962. Bennett also broke the Guinness World Record for the oldest person to release an album of new material, at the age of 95 years and 60 days.
In February 2021, Bennett revealed that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2016.[2] Due to the slow progression of his illness, he continued to record, tour, and perform until his retirement from concerts due to physical challenges, which was announced after his final performances on August 3 and 5, 2021, at Radio City Music Hall.[3]
Early life
1926–1943: Family and education
Anthony Dominick Benedetto was born on August 3, 1926,
Bennett grew up listening to
Bennett attended New York's School of Industrial Art where he studied painting and music[17] and would later appreciate their emphasis on proper technique.[18] But he dropped out at age 16 to help support his family.[19] He worked as a copy boy and runner for the Associated Press in Manhattan[20] and in several other low-skilled, low-paying jobs.[21] He mostly set his sights on a professional singing career, returning to performing as a singing waiter, playing and winning amateur nights all around the city, and enjoying a successful engagement at a Paramus, New Jersey, nightclub.[16][21]
1944–1950: World War II and after
Benedetto was drafted into the United States Army in November 1944, during the final stages of World War II.[9][22] He did basic training at Fort Dix and Fort Robinson as part of becoming an infantry rifleman.[23] Benedetto ran afoul of a sergeant from the South who disliked the Italian from New York City; heavy doses of KP duty or BAR cleaning resulted.[23] Processed through the huge Le Havre replacement depot, in January 1945, he was assigned as a replacement infantryman to the 255th Infantry Regiment of the 63rd Infantry Division, a unit filling in for the heavy losses suffered in the Battle of the Bulge.[24] He moved across France and later into Germany.[9] As March 1945 began, he joined the front line of what he would later describe as a "front-row seat in hell".[24]
As the
Benedetto stayed in
Upon his discharge from the Army and return to the States in 1946, Benedetto studied at the
In 1949,
Career
1951–1959: First successes
Warned by Miller not to imitate
A third number-one came in 1953 with "
Once the
For a month in August–September 1956, Bennett hosted an
1954–1965: A growing artistry
In 1954, the guitarist
The result was the 1957 album
Bennett also built up the quality and, therefore, the reputation of his
"For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business. He excites me when I watch him. He moves me. He's the singer who gets across what the composer has in mind, and probably a little more."
—Frank Sinatra, in a 1965 Life magazine interview[32]
Also in 1962, Bennett released his recording of "
Bennett's following album,
The next year brought
A firm believer in the
Bennett refused to perform in
1965–1979: Years of struggle
Ralph Sharon and Bennett parted ways in 1965.[44] There was great pressure on singers such as Lena Horne and Barbra Streisand to record "contemporary" rock songs and, in this vein, Columbia Records' Clive Davis suggested that Bennett do the same.[14] Bennett was very reluctant and, when he tried, the results pleased no one. This was exemplified by Tony Sings the Great Hits of Today! (1970),[14] before which Bennett became physically ill at the thought of recording.[55] It featured covers of Beatles and other current songs and a psychedelic art cover.[55][56]
Years later, Bennett would recall his dismay at being asked to do contemporary material, comparing it to when his mother was forced to produce a cheap dress.[57] By 1972, he had departed Columbia for the Verve division of MGM Records (Philips in the UK) and relocated for a stint in London, where he hosted a television show from the Talk of the Town nightclub in conjunction with Thames Television, Tony Bennett at the Talk of the Town.[58][59][60] With his new label, he tried a variety of approaches, including some more Beatles material, but found no renewed commercial success, and in a couple more years he was without a recording contract.[14][61]
Taking matters into his own hands, Bennett started his own record company, Improv.[14] He recorded some songs that would later become favorites, such as "What is This Thing Called Love?", and made two well-regarded albums with jazz pianist Bill Evans, The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album (1975) and Together Again (1976),[48] but Improv lacked a distribution arrangement with a major label and by 1977, it was out of business.[14][62]
As the decade neared its end, Bennett had no recording contract, no manager, and was not performing many concerts outside of
1979–1989: Turnaround
After a near-fatal cocaine overdose in 1979, Bennett called his sons Danny and Dae for help. "Look, I'm lost here", he told them. "It seems like people don't want to hear the music I make."[19]
Danny and Dae's band, Quacky Duck and His Barnyard Friends, had foundered and the former realized he was not musically talented but had a head for business. His father, on the other hand, had tremendous musical talent, but had trouble sustaining a career from it and had little financial sense. Danny signed on as his father's manager.[62]
Danny got his father's expenses under control, moved him back to New York City, and began booking him in colleges and small theaters to get him away from a "Vegas" image.[19][62] After some effort, a successful plan to pay back the IRS debt was put into place.[62] The singer had also reunited with Ralph Sharon as his pianist and musical director[44] (and would remain with him until Sharon's retirement in 2002).[45] By 1986, Tony Bennett was re-signed to Columbia Records, this time with creative control, and released The Art of Excellence. This became his first album to reach the charts since 1972.[14]
Henry Mancini's theme song "Life in a Looking Glass" from the Blake Edwards motion picture "That's Life" (1986), sung by Bennett, received a nomination at the Oscars for Best Original Song.[63]
1990–2006: Established career
Danny Bennett felt that younger audiences who were unfamiliar with his father would respond to his music if given a chance.[64] No changes to Tony's formal appearance, singing style, musical accompaniment (The Ralph Sharon Trio or an orchestra), or song choice (generally the Great American Songbook) were necessary or desirable.[14][65] Accordingly, Danny began regularly to book his father on Late Night with David Letterman, a show with a younger, "hip" audience.[64] This was subsequently followed by appearances on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Sesame Street, The Simpsons, Muppets Tonight, and various MTV programs.[17][19] In 1993, Bennett played a series of benefit concerts organized by alternative rock radio stations around the country.[64] The plan worked; as Tony later remembered, "I realized that young people had never heard those songs. Cole Porter, Gershwin—they were like, 'Who wrote that?' To them, it was different. If you're different, you stand out."[19]
During this time, Bennett continued to record, first putting out the acclaimed look-back
As Bennett was seen at MTV Video Music Awards shows side by side with the likes of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Flavor Flav, and as his "Steppin' Out with My Baby" video received MTV airplay,[64] it was clear that, as The New York Times said, "Tony Bennett has not just bridged the generation gap, he has demolished it. He has solidly connected with a younger crowd weaned on rock. And there have been no compromises."[66]
The new audience reached its height with Bennett's appearance in 1994 on MTV Unplugged.[62] (He quipped on the show, "I've been unplugged my whole career.") Featuring guest appearances by rock and country stars Elvis Costello and k.d. lang (both of whom had an affinity for the standards genre), the show attracted a considerable audience and much media attention.[64] The resulting MTV Unplugged: Tony Bennett album went platinum and, besides taking the Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance Grammy award for the third straight year, also won the top Grammy prize of Album of the Year.[12][67]
Following his comeback, Bennett financially prospered; by 1999, his assets were worth $15 to 20 million. He had no intention of retiring, saying in reference to masters such as
In 1998, Bennett performed on the final day of a mud-soaked Glastonbury Festival in an immaculate suit and tie,[71] his whole set on this occasion consisting of songs about the weather. His autobiography The Good Life was also first published in 1998. A series of albums, often based on themes (such as Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, blues, or duets), met with largely positive reviews.[67]
For his contribution to the recording industry, Bennett was given a star on the
Bennett frequently donated his time to charitable causes, to the extent that he was sometimes nicknamed "Tony Benefit".[77] In April 2002, he joined Michael Jackson, Chris Tucker, and former President Bill Clinton in a fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee at New York City's Apollo Theater.[78] He also recorded public service announcements for Civitan International.[79]
Danny Bennett continued to be Tony's manager while Dae Bennett is a
2006–2021: Later years and final album
On August 3, 2006, Bennett turned 80 years old. His record label celebrated by releasing reissues, compilations, and the album
In 2008, Bennett made two appearances with
In September 2011, Bennett appeared on
In September 2011, Bennett released
In the wake of the premature deaths of Winehouse and
In September 2014, Bennett performed for the first time in Israel, with his jazz quartet at the
On September 25, 2015, he released an album of songs composed by Jerome Kern, featuring Bill Charlap on piano, called The Silver Lining: The Songs of Jerome Kern.[109] On November 1, 2015, 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.[110]
On August 19, 2016, 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. With Senator Dianne Feinstein, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, and several San Francisco mayors in attendance, Bennett was serenaded by a young-adult choir singing "I Left My Heart in San Francisco". Bennett had first sung the song at the hotel in 1961. That same year, he performed at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on November 24 and the Rockefeller Center tree lighting on November 30. On December 20, 2016, NBC televised a special concert in honor of his 90th birthday, called Tony Bennett Celebrates 90: The Best Is Yet to Come.[111] In September 2018, Bennett re-recorded the George Gershwin song "Fascinating Rhythm", after 68 years and 342 days, according to the Guinness World Records adjudicator, earning the title of "longest time between the release of an original recording and a re-recording of the same single by the same artist".[112][113] The song appeared on the collaborative album Love Is Here to Stay with Diana Krall that was released on September 14.[114]
Bennett's final album, Love for Sale, another collaborative record with Lady Gaga, was released on September 30, 2021. The record received generally favorable reviews, and debuted at number eight in the United States.[115][116] Alexis Petridis called Bennett's performance on the album "pretty remarkable" despite the singer's age and health condition in his review for The Guardian.[117] Bennett broke the individual record for the longest span of top-10 albums on the Billboard 200 chart for any living artist; his first top-10 record was I Left My Heart in San Francisco in 1962.[118] Bennett also broke the Guinness World Record for the oldest person to release an album of new material, at the age of 95 years and 60 days.[119]
Bennett's final live performances were on August 3 and 5, 2021, when he presented a pair of shows with Lady Gaga at Radio City Music Hall. On August 12, 2021, nine days after his 95th birthday, Bennett's retirement from concerts was announced by his son and manager Danny Bennett. Danny stated that though his father remained a capable singer, he was becoming physically frail and risked a major fall if he continued touring.[120] A television special, One Last Time: An Evening with Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga debuted on November 28, 2021, on CBS, which contained select performances from the two final concerts.[121] Bennett's last televised performance was also with Gaga on December 16, 2021, on MTV Unplugged. The special was filmed the previous July in front of an intimate studio audience in New York City, and included duets from Love for Sale.[122][123] A documentary called The Lady and the Legend, which will include footage from the making of Bennett and Lady Gaga's two collaborative albums is scheduled to be available on Paramount+ in September 2023.[121][124]
Despite his retirement, as of early 2022, Bennett still continued to rehearse with his music director three times a week, Danny Bennett said in an interview.[125]
Artistry
Painting
Bennett also had success as a painter, done under his real name of Anthony Benedetto, or just Benedetto.[126] He followed up his childhood interest with professional training, work, and museum visits throughout his life. He sketched or painted every day, often of views out of hotel windows when he was on tour.[67]
He exhibited his work in numerous galleries around the world.[67] He was chosen as the official artist for the 2001 Kentucky Derby, and was commissioned by the United Nations to do two paintings, including one for its fiftieth anniversary.[67] His painting Homage to Hockney (for his friend David Hockney, painted after Hockney drew him) is on permanent display at the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio.[126] His Boy on Sailboat, Sydney Bay is in the permanent collection at the National Arts Club on Gramercy Park in New York City, as is his Central Park at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.[67] His paintings and drawings have been featured in ARTnews and other magazines, and have sold for as much as $80,000 a piece.[17][62] Many of his works were published in the art book Tony Bennett: What My Heart Has Seen in 1996. In 2007, another book involving his paintings, Tony Bennett in the Studio: A Life of Art & Music, became a bestseller among art books.[37]
Musical style
Regarding his choices in music, Bennett reiterated his artistic stance in a 2010 interview:
I'm not staying contemporary for the big record companies, I don't follow the latest fashions. I never sing a song that's badly written. In the 1920s and '30s, there was a renaissance in music that was the equivalent of the artistic Renaissance. Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer and others just created the best songs that had ever been written. These are classics, and finally they're not being treated as light entertainment. This is classical music.[127]
Awards and legacy
Bennett won 20 Grammy Awards (including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award),[128][129] as follows (years shown are the year in which the ceremony was held and the award was given, not the year in which the recording was released):
Bennett gained other recognition:
Recognition | Year | Results | Ref. | |||||
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New York City's Bronze Medallion | 1969 | Honored | ||||||
Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame | Honored | [72] | ||||||
Induction into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame | 1997 | Honored | [131] | |||||
Society of Singers Lifetime Achievement Award | 2000 | Honored | [132] | |||||
Lifetime achievement award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers | 2002 | Honored | [73] | |||||
Kennedy Center Honoree | 2005 | Honored | [67] | |||||
Induction into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame
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Honored | [76] | ||||||
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Humanitarian Award | 2006 | Honored | [80] | |||||
National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Award | 2006 | Honored | [67] | |||||
Induction into the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame | 2007 | Honored | [133] | |||||
Recipient of the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement presented by Awards Council member John Lewis | 2009 | [134] | ||||||
Induction into the New Jersey Hall of Fame | 2011 | Honored | [135] | |||||
Library of Congress Gershwin Prize | 2017 | Honored | [136] | Honorary doctorates from the Berklee College of Music | 1974 | Honored, The Art Institute of Boston (1994),[138] Roosevelt University's Chicago Musical College (1995),[139] George Washington University (2001),[140] Cleveland Institute of Music (2010),[141] the Juilliard School (2010),[141] and Fordham University (2012).[142]
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A statue of Bennett was unveiled outside the Fairmont Hotel in honor of his 90th birthday, and his first performance of "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" there in 1961. | August 16, 2016 | [144] | ||||||
A Guinness World Record for "oldest person to reach No.1 on the US Album Chart with a newly recorded album", at the age of 88 years 69 days, for Cheek to Cheek
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2014 | Honored | [105] | |||||
A Guinness World Record for "the longest time between the release of an original recording and a re-recording of the same single by the same artist" for re-recording "Fascinating Rhythm" 68 years and 342 days after the original recording. | Honored | [113] | ||||||
With the release of Love for Sale, Bennett broke a Guinness World Records title for being the oldest person to release an album of new material at the age of 95 years and 60 days. On April 3, 2022, he became the second-oldest person to win a Grammy Award, when he shared the Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album Grammy with Lady Gaga for Love for Sale, aged 95 years, 8 months, and 1 day. | Honored | [145][146] |
Works
Discography
Bennett released over 70 albums during his career, almost all for
Books
- Bennett, Tony (1996). Tony Bennett: What My Heart Has Seen. ISBN 0-8478-1972-8.
- Bennett, Tony (1999). The Good Life: The Autobiography Of Tony Bennett. With Will Friedwald ([2nd] ed.). New York: ISBN 0-671-02958-4 – via Internet Archive.
- Bennett, Tony; Sullivan, Robert (2007). Tony Bennett in the Studio: A Life of Art & Music. ISBN 978-1-4027-4767-0.
- Bennett, Tony (2012). Life is a Gift: The Zen of Bennett. ISBN 978-0-06-220706-7.
- Bennett, Tony; Simon, Scott (2016). Just Getting Started. ISBN 978-0-06-247677-7.
Personal life
On February 12, 1952,
Bennett had become involved with aspiring actress Sandra Grant while filming The Oscar in 1965. The couple lived together for several years and on December 29, 1971, they quietly married in New York.[152] They had two daughters, Joanna (b. 1970) and Antonia (b. 1974),[153] and moved to Los Angeles.[154] The two were married until 1983.[155]
In the late 1980s, Bennett entered into a long-term romantic relationship with Susan Crow, a former New York City schoolteacher.[156]
Bennett and Crow founded Exploring the Arts, a charitable organization dedicated to creating, promoting, and supporting arts education. At the same time, they founded (and named after Bennett's friend) the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Queens, a public high school dedicated to teaching the performing arts. The school opened in 2001 and has a very high graduation rate.[9] On June 21, 2007, Bennett married Crow in a private civil ceremony in New York that was witnessed by Mario Cuomo, the former governor of New York.[157][158]
Illness and death
In February 2021, an article in
In announcing Bennett's retirement in August 2021, Danny Bennett stated that the Alzheimer's was mainly affecting his father's short-term memory and that he would often forget he had just performed after a concert; his long-term memory remained intact and he could still fully remember all the lyrics to his repertoire when performing.[120]
Bennett died at his home in New York City on July 21, 2023, following a seven-year battle with Alzheimer's disease. His family said he kept singing to the end, lastly "Because of You".[161][162][54] He was hailed as the "champion" and "legendary interpreter" of the Great American Songbook.[54][163]
Bennett was interred alongside his parents at
See also
- List of bestselling music artists
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Bibliography
- Bennett, Tony (1999). The Good Life: The Autobiography Of Tony Bennett. With Will Friedwald ([2nd] ed.). New York: ISBN 0-671-02958-4 – via Internet Archive.
- Brooks, Tim; Marsh, Earle F. (2007). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946–Present (9th ed.). ISBN 978-0-345-49773-4.
- Evanier, David (2011). All the Things You Are: The Life of Tony Bennett. Hoboken, New Jersey: ISBN 978-0-470-52065-9.
- ISBN 0-306-80712-2.
- ISBN 0-8230-7511-7.
Further reading
- Billboard. November 30, 1968. pp. T1-T40.
- Dorothy Andries. "Tony Bennett; 'Life's Been Good to Me'". The Milwaukee Sentinel. November 14, 1980. p. 3.
- Peter B. King. "Tony Bennett; 'I just have to paint, and I have to sing'". The Pittsburgh Press. February 10, 1986. p. C6.
- "Tony Bennett: Half a Century and Looking Forward". Billboard. December 20, 1997. pp. 37–65. Pullout section includes multiple articles, including:
- Irv Lichtman. "Tony Bennett: The Billboard Interview". pp. 38–39, 52 and 56.
- Tom Vickers. "Tony and Columbia". pp. 40 and 58.
- Don Waller. "When It Comes to Good Works, Bennett Does a Great Job". pp. 42 and 54.
- Paul Sexton. "Bennett Over There". p. 44.
- Mark Rowland. "Essential Bennett". pp. 46 and 48.
- Richard Henderson. "Bennett Brushes Up". p. 50.
- "Backbeat: "Happy 80th, Tony Bennett!". Billboard. August 19, 2006. p. 61.
- Jim Bessman. "Tony's Long Haul: Strategic Partnerships Fuel Big Sales for Bennett's 'Duets' Album". Billboard. November 11, 2006. p. 24.
External links
- Official website
- Tony Bennett Interview at NAMM Oral History Collection (1986)
- Tony Bennett at AllMusic
- Tony Bennett discography at Discogs
- Tony Bennett at IMDb