The last of the great saloon singers of the mid-20th century, Tony Bennett died Friday at the age of 96.
Tony Bennett, the eminent and timeless stylist whose devotion to classic American songs and knack for creating new standards such as “I Left My Heart In San Francisco” graced a decades-long career that brought him admirers from Frank Sinatra to Lady Gaga, died Friday. He was 96, just two weeks short of his birthday.
“I enjoy entertaining the audience, making them forget their problems,” he told The Associated Press in 2006. “I think people … are touched if they hear something that’s sincere and honest and maybe has a little sense of humour. … I just like to make people feel good when I perform.” For Bennett, one of the few performers to move easily between pop and jazz, such collaborations were part of his crusade to expose new audiences to what he called the Great American Songbook.
Interview with legendary crooner Tony Bennett at the Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto on September 2006.Singer Tony Bennett performs during the 58th Annual Tony Awards Sunday, June 6, 2004, at New York's Radio City Music Hall.Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett perform on stage at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles February 8, 2015.U.S.
“They’re all giants in the industry, and all of a sudden they’re saying to me `You’re the master,”' Bennett told the AP in 2006. He studied commercial art in high school, but had to drop out to help support his family. The teenager got a job as a copy boy for the AP, performed as a singing waiter and competed in amateur shows. A combat infantryman during World War II, he served as a librarian for the Armed Forces Network after the war and sang with an army big band in occupied Germany. His earliest recording is a 1946 air check from Armed Forces Radio of the blues “St. James Infirmary.
“He thought for a moment, then he said, `We’ll call you Tony Bennett,”' the singer wrote in his autobiography, “The Good Life,” published in 1998. Bennett’s early career peaked in the 1960s as he topped the charts with “San Francisco” and became the first male pop solo performer to headline at Carnegie Hall, releasing a live album of the 1962 concert.
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