Lady Gaga honoured her late friend and collaborator Tony Bennett on what would have been his 97th birthday.
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Lady Gaga saying that “Tony Bennett saved [her] life” in the wake of the latter’s death.The veteran crooner died in New York City today (Friday, July 21) at the age of 96. A cause of death has not yet been disclosed, but Bennett had been living with Alzheimer’s disease since 2016.His final studio recording was 2021’s ‘Love For Sale’, a collaborative album with Gaga.
The pair had previously joined forces on a 2014 duet LP called ‘Cheek To Cheek’. In 2011, Bennett recorded a version of ‘The Lady Is A Tramp’ with Gaga for his ‘Duets II’ collection.During an interview with CBS nine years ago, Gaga credited Bennett with “saving” her following a period of personal and professional difficulty.“You know, it’s one thing to put a train on the tracks,” she explained.
“But it’s another thing to keep the train on the tracks. You just can’t let a train out on the tracks and just run out.
It’ll… I crashed.”Gaga went on to say at the time that she “didn’t even want to make music anymore” at one point in 2013.“I just want to be happy, and I can’t tell you how happy singing this music makes me,” the pop star added tearfully, referring to ‘Cheek To Cheek’.“Tony Bennett saved my life” —Lady Gaga pic.twitter.com/ehj463TrBO— Gaga Daily (@gagadaily) July 21, 2023“I got tired of fighting to keep [the music] my way,” she explained. “And Tony… that’s one of the first things he said to me.
He said, ‘Don’t you ever, ever, ever, ever, again or in the future let anybody take down the quality or the intelligence of what you do’.”Gaga said: “I was a jazz singer since I was a little girl, and nobody had really picked up on it. So when Tony asked [to collaborate], I got really excited.”In a separate 2014 interview with Parade, Gaga commented: “I tell
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Tony Bennett's widow, Susan Benedetto, is honoring her late husband on what would have been his 97th birthday, Aug. 3, speaking out on his life and legacy in an interview on Bennett died on July 21 in his hometown of New York City. While no specific cause of death has been announced, the music legend had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2016, sharing the news with the public in 2021.In a sit-down chat with Hoda Kotb on Thursday, Susan was joined by one of Tony's four children, Danny, and revealed the moving final words that he said to her.
Lady GaGa is paying tribute to her friend and collaborator Tony Bennett.
Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett first met at the Robin Hood Foundation gala in New York City where she had performed a version of Nat King Cole’s “Orange Colored Sky.” Bennett asked Gaga to sing a duet with him on his next album 2011’s Duets II, which was timed to his 85th birthday. Their performance of “The Lady Is a Tramp” would be the first collaboration between the two and the beginning of an enduring friendship that lasted throughout Bennett’s final years.
Lady Gaga paid a heartfelt tribute to her friend Tony Bennett in a lengthy Instagram post on Sunday.
Lady Gaga is mourning the death of Tony Bennett. In a lengthy and deeply heartfelt tribute, Gaga opens up about the «painful» experience of watching the legendary singer battle with Alzheimer's disease at the end of his life. Bennett died on July 21 at the age of 96.
Lady Gaga has shared a heartfelt tribute to music icon and friend Tony Bennett, following news of his death.The legendary American singer died on July 21 in his hometown of New York, after a lengthy battle with Alzheimer’s disease. He was aged 96.Since sharing his debut album ‘Because Of You’ in 1952, the vocalist went on to release more than 70 albums, won 20 Grammy awards and collaborated with some of the biggest names in the music industry, including Sir Paul McCartney and Aretha Franklin.His final studio recording was titled ‘Love For Sale’, a collaborative collection with Lady Gaga which was released in 2021. The two had previously joined forces for the 2014 release ‘Cheek To Cheek’.Now, following his death earlier this month, Lady Gaga has spoken out on the loss publicly for the first time, and shared a touching tribute to the musician and “true friend”.Alongside an image of them both embracing, shared yesterday (July 30), the caption read: “I will miss my friend forever.
who died last week, on what would have been his 97th birthday. “You only come across a Tony Bennett once in a lifetime,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said of the longtime New Yorker on Thursday.“It didn’t matter if you were young or old or somewhere in between, it didn’t matter if you were a friend of a fan, just about everyone loved Tony — and Tony loved just about everyone.”Schumer also noted that besides being an exceptional musician and accomplished painter, Bennett was “a very good human being,” as he served in World War II and marched with Martin Luther King Jr.
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Lady Gaga is among the many mourning the death of Tony Bennett, who died on Friday at age 96.
Tony Bennett‘s son and manager D’Andrea “Danny” Bennett has paid tribute to his “inspirational” late father.The legendary crooner died in New York City last Friday (July 21). He was 96 years old.
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Tony Bennett's fans are keeping his legacy alive!Since the announcement that the legendary musician died on Friday, at the age of 96, the «Love For Sale» singer has been celebrated in tributes across the country.In New York City, fans adorned a park bench with flowers in Central Park. The seat in his home city was where Bennett famously posed for a picture with his dog.
just two weeks before his 97th birthday.“The first time I ever got up to do stand up and a little tap dancing, was opening for him in Hawaii. I was so bad, and he was so nice to me.”Bennett used to sing at the Copacabana on East 60th Street, where mobster Frank Costello was a partner.“Godfather” actor Gianni Russo, who was Costello’s “personal errand boy,” recalled the first time he met Bennett at the famed nightclub in 1959. “I was 16.
President Joe Biden said that Tony Bennett, who died on Friday, “didn’t just sing the classics – he himself was an American classic.”
Tony Bennett died at age 96.Bennett's publicist, Sylvia Weiner, confirmed the news of his death in a statement to ET. The legendary singer died in his hometown of New York City, just two weeks shy of his 97th birthday. While no specific cause of death has been announced, Bennett had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2016, sharing the news with the public in 2021.In a post shared on Bennett's official Instagram account, a heartwarming detail about his final days at home was revealed. «Tony left us today but he was still singing the other day at his piano and his last song was, 'Because of You,' his first #1 hit,» the caption reads, alongside a beautiful black-and-white image of the singer in his younger years.
Tim Chan If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. The late Tony Bennett is being remembered in a new children’s book that chronicles the singer’s inspiring path to success, and the impact he left with his seven decade-long career.