came to participate as an infantryman in World War II, in Europe. His first record, Because of You, in 1951, showed a talented young man with a splendid voice, with a jazzy bent and a profile clearly of crooner.Īnthony Benedetto was born on August 3, 1926, in Queens, New York, the son of an Italian-American family. Tony Bennett has more than 70 record works, just over 50 million records sold, some of them like I Left My Heart in San Francisco (1962), MTV Unplugged: Tony Bennett (1994) the Duets, An American Classic (2006) absolute sales records and 19 Grammy Awards. She told of the Alzheimer’s disease that the singer suffers from.
Tony Bennett and his wife Susan Crow, 40 years his junior. There had already been clear signals during the recording of the album with Lady Gaga and her terse interventions throughout the album’s dissemination work.ĭespite the disease, diagnosed in 2016, Bennett has shown in recent years a powerful energy after his album with Lady Gaga, he released The Silver Linings, with the music of composer Jerome Kern, in 2016 and Love Is Here To Stay with pianist and singer Diana Krall, in 2018.Īn artistic career that began lukewarm in 1936, with only ten years and ends in 2021, with 95, a whole record that was reflected in a significant number of great record works, such as his two albums with the Count Basie orchestra, in the fifties, or those two beautiful albums in a duet with the pianist Bill Evans in the 1970s. Bennett suffers, perhaps it is not the right word since he is not aware of what he suffers, of this incurable, unpredictable disease that places the patient in a position of enormous fragility.
His wife sought with the advertisement to help break that stigma that persecutes mental illness and in which we could include cancer. Instagram photo The announcement of his Alzheimer’s
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