Tony Bennett Biography

With the death of Tony and even with the death of his peer Harry Belafonte in April this year, the era of the singers-kak-interpreters finally ended in pop music. Not authors-performers, not avatars of production thoughts or instantly recognizable adherents of a certain vocal presentation-but artists who are treating their own voice as a leading tool in a jazz ensemble of Bennett studied improvisation, withdrawing Stean Ghetz saxophone parties.

Of course, the last Great Croener of the United States has direct heirs - and with many of them like Diana Kroll, Elvis Costello and his close friend, Lady Gaga, he recorded outstanding duets in the past twenty years. But all of the listed work in other cultural paradigms: the church belongs to rock traction, and Gaga is one of the priests, and their appeal to jazz standards remains a kind of tribute to the past, a demonstration of knowledge and skills.

Intentally, the old -fashioned Kroll, like,, for example, Michael Buble, on the contrary, deliberately shunes any modern trends - and therefore remain niche, despite impressive sales. Anti-Italian sentiments were still quite strong outside the native to Tony New York, so many artists made their names more dummy for an incomprehensible listener: Dino Crochetti became Dina Martin, and Pierino Komo turned into Perry.

Our hero also changed his last name: so Anthony Benedetto became famous as Tony Bennett with the song Because of You. Nevertheless, colleagues appreciated him almost higher than the listeners: Sinatra called Tony almost the most technical vocalist in the country. In Bennett's career, it is difficult to choose one key, most characteristic song - but the main contender is recorded in the sixties: this is I LEFT My Heart in San Francisco, one of the gyms of the city that always sounds in the stadium after the victories of the baseball team San Francisco Giants.

The intervention of his son helped: the younger Bennett realized that there were simply no people on the stage by Tony by Tony by the end of the eighties. Thus began the second and most famous period of the career of Tony Bennett. He starred in the role of himself in comedies, played at the main festivals of the planet, met with politicians and athletes and remained a magical grandfather of Jazz - without stopping to release new notes.

His last album, Love for Sale, Bennett, who then announced that he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, released only a year and a half ago - at the age of 95 years.

This is Guinness’s official record-and something tells you that it will not be so simple to beat it: not because of the impressive life expectancy of Tony, but due to the fact that in the history of pop music it is difficult to find performers with the same degree of vitality.