Girl Gaga has fond recollections of her beloved pal and musical collaborator Tony Bennett, who died on Friday (July 21) on the age of 96.
In a brand new Individuals cowl story remembering the late legend, the publication revisited a 2014 interview with Gaga, wherein she shared that Bennett sketched a tattoo of a trumpet for her.
“I requested Tony to attract me a trumpet, and he sketched me Miles Davis’ trumpet,” she recalled. “Then I had it tattooed together with his final title, Benedetto, beneath. Simply so I might at all times keep in mind this time collectively.”
Their 2014 jazz album, Cheek to Cheek, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. After Bennett was identified with Alzheimer’s illness in 2016, he went on to launch a second jazz album with Gaga, titled Love for Sale, in 2021.
“Tony heard me sing [‘Orange Colored Sky’] and he requested to satisfy me,” Gaga stated in 2014. “He stated, ‘Do you wish to do a jazz album collectively?’ I stated, ‘After all I do!’ We had been quick associates.”
In 2021, Bennett introduced that he was retiring from touring and performing after one final present in August of that yr with Gaga at Radio Metropolis Music Corridor entitled “One Final Time.”
