IN MEMORIAM 1926 – 2023
Tony Bennett
Voice.
Jazz Soul
Anthony Dominick Benedetto, known professionally as Tony Bennett, was an American jazz and traditional pop singer. He received many accolades, including 20 Grammy Awards, a Lifetime Achievement Award, and two Primetime Emmy Awards. Bennett was named a National Endowments for the Arts Jazz Master and a Kennedy Center Honoree. He founded the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Astoria, Queens, New York, along with Exploring the Arts, a non-profit arts education program. He sold more than 50 million records worldwide and earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Biography summary from English Wikipedia, photograph via Wikimedia Commons.
1926
Born August 3, 1926 in United States
BIRTH
2023
Died at 97
IN MEMORIAM