RIP Tony Bennett

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Anthony Dominick Benedetto (August 3, 1926 – July 21, 2023)

Bennett was known for songs such as The Way You Look Tonight, Body and Soul and (I Left My Heart) In San Francisco.

He also collaborated with star performers from Lady Gaga to Aretha Franklin and Frank Sinatra, who called him "the best singer in the business".

During a career that spanned eight decades, Bennett sold millions of records and won 20 Grammys, including a lifetime achievement award.

In 2021, five years after his 2016 Alzheimer's diagnosis, Bennett performed his final shows alongside Gaga, with whom, for younger fans, he became closely associated.

He posted on social media at the time: "Life is a gift - even with Alzheimer's."

Away from music, as a keen painter, Bennett had his work displayed in galleries. He also founded the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in his hometown Queens.

He is survived by four children: Danny, Dae, Joanna and Antonia, as well as his wife Susan Crow.

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He was a wonderful singer and a class act.

In the years when my mother was in a nursing home and suffered from dementia, I would buy her cd's and create channels on streaming services to play music for her. Music was one part of her memory that never went away. She could remember all six verses of hymns that she learned in her Methodist church growing up, and she knew so many jazz standards by heart that she could anticipate every rhythmic or dynamic change.

Besides Count Basie, Tony Bennett was one of her favorites.

So, of course, I bought her this album, which she loved.

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And, of course, this album.