Tony Bennett, masterful stylist of American musical standards, dies at 96
By HatetheSwamp July 21, 2023 9:04 am Category: Entertainment (0.0 from 0 votes)
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Bennett’s chart-topping career spanned seven decades. He gained his first pop success in the early 1950s and enjoyed a career revival in the 1990s and became popular with younger audiences in part because of an appearance on “MTV Unplugged.” The 19-time Grammy-winner continued recording and touring constantly, and his 2014 collaboration with Lady Gaga, “Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: Cheek to Cheek,” debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard charts.
In February 2021, his family revealed Bennett had Alzheimer’s disease. He was first diagnosed with the irreversible neurological disorder in 2016. At the time, his wife and said he endured “increasingly rarer moments of clarity and awareness.”
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