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Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Lady Gaga is returning to the Great American Songbook, adding 12 more dates to her “Jazz & Piano” Las Vegas residency later this year. The revived run of shows, which Gaga first debuted in 2019, will kick off on Aug.

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.

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Lady Gaga is speaking out after her friend and collaborator Tony Bennett died on July 21.

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.

died on July 21 at the age of 96, his publicist Sylvia Weiner confirmed.While no cause of death was immediately available, Bennett had been suffering from Alzheimer’s disease since 2016.The “Born This Way” crooner, 37, penned a lengthy and heart-wrenching post on Instagram on Monday where she remembered her pal and confidante.“I will miss my friend forever,” she scribed alongside a photo of the two sharing a hug.“I will miss singing with him, recording with him, talking with him, being on stage together,” she said.“With Tony, I got to live my life in a time warp. Tony & I had this magical power,” the “Poker Face” pop star continued. “We transported ourselves to another era, modernized the music together, & gave it all new life as a singing duo.

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.

Lady Gaga has shared a tribute to jazz singer Tony Bennett, speaking of a “painful but beautiful” loss.The singer and actress, 37, broke her silence following the death of her “real true friend” and long-time collaborator Bennett, who died from Alzheimer's in his hometown of New York age 96 on July 21.The pair had been frequent musical collaborators, with Bennett breaking his own record as the oldest living performer with a number one album on the US Billboard 200 chart for his duet project with Gaga titled Cheek To Cheek, released when the singer was 88 years old. He had topped the charts three years earlier with Duets II, featuring stars including Gaga, Carrie Underwood and Amy Winehouse, in her last studio recording. Bennett’s final album in 2021 titled Love For Sale, featured duets with Gaga on the title track, Night And Day and other Cole Porter songs, and won him his last Grammy award.

Lady Gaga has paid tribute to her friend and collaborator Tony Bennett, following his death on July 21 at age 96. “I will miss my friend forever,” Gaga wrote in a lengthy Instagram post late Sunday night. “I will miss singing with him, recording with him, talking with him, being on stage together.

Lady Gaga is remembering her friend, Tony Bennett, in a touching tribute.

Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett truly had a special relationship, and the pop star will always carry a reminder of that on her body in the form of a tattoo that he drew for her.

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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The Senate passed a resolution declaring August 3 as Tony Bennett Day, honoring the legendary singer who died last week at age 96.

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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.

legendary pop, jazz and big-band vocalist died Friday at the age of 96 following a battle with Alzheimer’s disease.“Tony, my father, imbued the essence of the American dream,” Danny, 69, told People on Monday. “He taught us all that remarkable opportunities will reveal themselves and that anything is possible when you stick by your passion, believe in yourself and dedicate your life to quality.”Danny described his father as “an artist, a humanitarian, and an inspiration to anyone who experienced his elegance and grace.” “He and I experienced an amazing journey together as father and son, and I’m simply proud and humble to have been a small part of his legacy,” he added. Tony was discovered in 1949 by Bob Hope — working with Pearl Bailey at a Greenwich Village club — and signed a deal with Columbia Records.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Pop-jazz singing legend Tony Bennett died July 24 at age 96, after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease seven years earlier. His 75-year career followed a classic three-act structure: a rise through the 1950s and early ‘60s that culminated in his biggest hit, “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” in 1962; the loss of pop opportunities as rock took over, resulting in deeper explorations into jazz; and a return to superstardom in the 1990s as he won the album of the year Grammy for “MTV Unplugged.” Actually, “we had a fourth act, with Lady Gaga, that lasted 10 years,” says his son, Danny Bennett. Danny became his dad’s manager in 1986 and oversaw one of the great comebacks in music, which ended with Bennett and Gaga taping a final special at Radio City Music Hall on his 95th birthday.

People.Bennett died on Friday, at the age of 96.“Tony, naturally, loved visiting his ancestral homeland, and we spent many summers in Italy over the years,” Benedetto, 56, told a reporter. “It was always a special time for us to be together, just the two of us,” she fondly recalled.“Tony would paint all day, and then we would eat pasta, which was his favorite meal…Everyone knows Tony had heart, but he also was a wonderful soul,” she said of the “Cheek to Cheek” singer.She noted that her surname, Benedetto, is Bennett’s original family name — and that it means “the blessed one” in his mother tongue, Italian.

Tony Bennett’s fans are keeping his legacy alive!

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.

who died Friday at age 96.The park’s iconic carriage drivers left a touching note on the perch, slightly tweaking the lyrics to his 1953 song “Please Driver (Once Around the Park Again),” to read: “Please, Tony, once around the park again…We can’t believe you’re gone…”“RIP, Central Park icon, Tony Bennett,” they wrote.Tourists were seen taking pictures of the multiple bouquets and note on the bench, which is located on Center Drive near Central Park South and Sixth Avenue.The jazz singer often visited the park and was seen in the later years of his life being pushed around the beautiful greenery in a wheelchair. The Astoria native lived on Central Park South for 25 years.He also would sit in the park and paint his favorite spot in watercolor. “I have many spots I like around the park,” he told the New York Times in 2015.

Tony Bennett‘s wife Susan Benedetto paid tribute to the late singer after he died Friday in New York. He was 96.

Tony Bennett's wife Susan Benedetto paid tribute to the late singer after he died Friday in New York. He was 96.Susan took to Bennett's verified Instagram account and posted a moving message to the fans, friends and colleagues «who celebrated his life and humanity and shared their love of him and his musical legacy.»She added, «And as sad as today has been for all of us we can find joy in Tony's legacy forever.» The sweet message was signed by Susan and the couple's son, Danny.

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.

Before Tony Bennett launched his seven decades-long career in show business, the late legendary jazz singer served his country in the European theater during the last stages of World War II. Bennett, who died on Friday at the age of 96, was drafted into the U.S. Army at the age of 18 in 1944 and began his service a year later when he was sent to fight on the front lines following heavy casualties suffered by the Allied Forces at the Battle of the Bulge.

Tony Bennett‘s wife Susan is breaking her silence after his death.

Tony Bennett’s loved ones shared a message of love and joy following the singer’s death on Friday, July 21.

Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga certainly appeared like the oddest of couples.That was most definitely the case when the “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” crooner paired up with the shock diva — who sang “He ate my heart” on 2009’s “Monster” — for their first collaborative album, 2014’s “Cheek to Cheek.”The two had previously worked together, on his 2011 “Duets II” LP, playfully partnering on “The Lady Is a Tramp,” the same year that Mother Monster had gone full-on zombie in her “Born This Way” video.That was about as far as you could get from Bennett’s classy, debonair style.

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President Joe Biden said that Tony Bennett, who died on Friday, “didn’t just sing the classics – he himself was an American classic.”

MTV has set three back-to-back re-airings of its two Unplugged specials featuring Tony Bennett, commemorating the beloved singer’s death today at 96. MTV Unplugged: Tony Bennett from 1994 will return tonight at 10 p.m. ET/PT, followed by 2021’s MTV Unplugged: Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga at 11.

the sad news of legendary crooner Tony Bennett’s passing, the world of entertainment has been profoundly moved and emotionally stirred. With hearts heavy, a wave of tributes and heartfelt condolences has surged across social media platforms and beyond.