Tony, because of you we have your songs in our heart forever.
An album with Gaga won a Grammy in 2014.
And for Tony, its always been music.
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And so, its no wonder that his brain has pretty much built itself around his music.
Bennetts late resurgence took off in the 1990s.
With more than 70 albums, many of his Grammys came late in life.
Heretired officially in 2021.
He helped free the concentration camps during the time of World War II.
He marched with Martin Luther King, Pelosi said at the time.
He is a true American patriot.
He was discharged in August from the Army 1946.
It peaked at No.
19 on the Billboard Hot 100, and the album of the same name reached No.
5, went platinum and spent nearly three years on the Billboard 200 chart.
He excites me when I watch him.
Hes the singer who gets across what the composer has in mind, and probably a little more.
Bennetts hits included 1951s Because of You and 1953s No.
1 hit, Rags to Riches and No.
2 Stranger in Paradise, as well as the 1954 top-10 hit Therell Be No Teardrops Tonight.
He boasts a half-dozen platinum albums and nine others that went gold.
At age 88, Bennett broke his own record as the oldest living performer with a No.
1 album on the Billboard 200 chart forCheek to Cheek, the duets disc with Lady Gaga.
HisDuets IIwas released in 2011, in conjunction with his 85th birthday, and became the first No.
1 album of his career.
It featured artists including Gaga, Carrie Underwood and Amy Winehouse, in her last studio recording.
Duets: An American Classicreached No.
3 in 2006, then his highest-charting set to date, topping the No.
5 peak ofI LeftMy Heart in San Franciscoin 1962.Viva Duetshit No.
5 six years later.Love Is Here to Stay,recorded with Diana Krall, hit No.
I enjoy entertaining the audience, making them forget their problems, he told The Associated Press in 2006.
I just like to make people feel good when I perform.
Anthony Dominick Benedetto was born on Aug. 3, 1926, in Queens.
He was assigned to a unit that exhumed mass graves.
That helped convince him to pursue a career as a singer.
Erik Pedersen contributed to this report.
