Tony Bennett

Also known as Anthony Dominick Benedetto, Anthony Dominick "Tony" Benedetto, Anthony Benedetto

American singer (1926–2023)

OverviewAI-generated

Tony Bennett was an American singer whose career spanned from 1945 to 2021. He is associated with genres including jazz, swing, oldies, and easy listening. Bennett had four children and passed away on July 21, 2023. He was recognized in the Hollywood Walk Of Fame collection.

His official website describes him as a legendary singer. On Last.fm, his music has been played 18,291,302 times by 1,766,842 listeners. Crossref lists five works under his name, while Open Library attributes 31 works to an author of the same name, including titles such as *Culture, Class, Distinction* and *Accessing the past*.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1947
Died: .
Works: 31

Top works

Culture, Class, Distinction
Accessing the past
Out of which past
New keywords
Cátedra Norbert Lechner (2012-2013)

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Country: US
Active from: 1926-08-03
Active to: 2023-07-21

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 1,766,842
Total plays: 18,291,302

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,938x
Atomically Thin <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>MoS</mml:mi> <mml:mn>2</mml:mn> </mml:msub> </mml:math> : A New Direct-Gap Semiconductor
· 2010 · cited 14,584x
Graph-based genome alignment and genotyping with HISAT2 and HISAT-genotype
· 2019 · cited 14,369x
Teleporting an unknown quantum state via dual classical and Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen channels
· 1993 · cited 11,994x
Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 10,797x

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Quotes

“I've taken stuff from people, too. You know though, if you steal from one person, you're just a thief. But if you steal from everyone, that's research.”
“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.”

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Official website

Tony Bennett | The Official Site

The official website of legendary singer and Tony Bennett.

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Encyclopedic overview

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 a National Endowments for the Arts Jazz Master and a Kennedy Center Honoree. He founded the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Astoria, Queens, New York, along with Exploring the Arts, a non-profit arts education program. 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 U.S. Army infantryman in the European Theater. Afterward, he developed his singing technique, signed with Columbia Records and had his first number-one popular song with "Because of You" in 1951. Several popular tracks such as "Rags to Riches" followed in early 1953. He then refined his approach to encompass jazz singing. He reached an artistic peak in the late 1950s with albums such as The Beat of My Heart and Strike Up the Band. In 1962, Bennett recorded his signature song, "I Left My Heart in San Francisco". His career and personal life experienced an extended downturn during the height of the rock music era. Bennett staged a comeback in the late 1980s and 1990s, putting out gold record albums again and expanding his reach to the MTV Generation while keeping his musical style intact.

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