The vocal titan died at age 96.
Tony Bennett on the Oprah Winfrey Present in Chicago on Dec. 12, 1992.
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On the morning of July 21, the world misplaced one in all its best interpreters of the Nice American Songbook when Tony Bennett died at age 96.
Bennett was born Antonio Dominick Benedetto in Lengthy Island, NY on Aug. 3, 1926, and started performing in nightclubs the 12 months after World Struggle II ended below the title Joe Bari. It was leisure icon Bob Hope who steered the title change and helped enhance the budding entertainer’s profession.
Bennett’s bel canto singing fashion was impressed not by different singers, however by jazz instrumentalists, which allowed him to interpret a spread of fabric, tackling songs from the jazz, nation and even rock canon. His greatest hit of the Billboard Scorching 100 period was “I Left My Coronary heart In San Francisco,” and regardless of a industrial downturn within the Nineteen Eighties, Bennett got here again with a bang within the ‘90s, incomes new generations of followers (and a Grammy album of the 12 months award) for 1994’s MTV Unplugged: Tony Bennett album.
Bennett’s iconic voice and artwork endeared him to musicians, comedians, actors and politicians: He labored with everybody from Sammy Davis Jr. to Duke Ellington to Rely Basie to Girl Gaga to Amy Winehouse to Paul McCartney to Fred Rogers.
“I simply love the truth that in an period the place the whole lot’s based mostly on youth, I can talk with everyone — the younger, the middle-aged and the previous like me. I’m very content material,” Bennett informed Billboard in 2016 of his cross-generational, cross-genre enchantment.
Right here, we’ve rounded up a number of career-spanning pictures from the lifetime of an American icon.
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Tony Bennett
Picture Credit score: Courtesy Everett Assortment Tony Bennett photographed circa 1954.
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Sammy Davis Jr. & Tony Bennett
Picture Credit score: Archive Pictures/Getty Photos Sammy Davis Jr. and Tony Bennett acting on a tv present circa 1960.
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Duke Ellington & Tony Bennett
Picture Credit score: Courtesy Everett Assortment Duke Ellington and Tony Bennett on “The Greatest on File” on Could 11, 1966.
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Doris Day & Tony Bennett
Picture Credit score: Courtesy Everett Assortment Doris Day and Tony Bennett on “The Doris Day Present” on November 23, 1970.
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Dean Martin & Tony Bennett
Picture Credit score: NBCU Photograph Financial institution/NBCUniversal/Getty Photos Dean Martin and Tony Bennett on “The Dean Martin Present” on March 21, 1968.
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Tony Bennett, Betty Aberlin & Fred Rogers
Picture Credit score: Courtesy Everett Assortment Tony Bennett, Betty Aberlin (with puppet Girl Elaine Fairchilde) and Fred Rogers on ‘Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.’
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Frank Sinatra & Tony Bennett
Picture Credit score: ABC Photograph Archives/Disney Basic Leisure Content material/Getty Photos Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett on “Frank Sinatra and Buddies” on April 21, 1977.
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Tony Bennett & Stevie Marvel
Picture Credit score: Rick Diamond/Getty Photos Tony Bennett and Stevie Marvel backstage throughout MLK Gala at The Atlanta Civic Heart in Atlanta on Jan. 13, 1982.
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Tony Bennett at Radio Metropolis Music Corridor
Picture Credit score: Gary Gershoff/Getty Photos Tony Bennett performs onstage at Radio Metropolis Music Corridor, New York, New York, Could 10, 1986.
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Tony Bennett with Cheryl James & DJ Spinderella
Picture Credit score: ©MTV/Courtesy Everett Collectio Cheryl James (aka Salt), Tony Bennett and Deidra Muriel Roper, (aka DJ Spinderella) photographed backstage on the MTV Video Music Awards on Sept. 8, 1994.
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Tony Bennett on the Grammy Awards
Picture Credit score: Barry King/WireImage Tony Bennett throughout The thirty fifth Annual GRAMMY Awards at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California on February 24, 1993.
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Tony Bennett & Liza Minnelli
Picture Credit score: Monty Brinton/CBS/Courtesy Everett Assortment Tony Bennett and Liza Minnelli on the Tony Bennett: Right here’s To The Women, A Live performance of Hope on December 1, 1995.
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Tony Bennett & Brandy Norwood
Picture Credit score: Monty Brinton/CBS/Courtesy Everett Assortment Tony Bennett and Brandy Norwood peform on”Tony Bennett: Right here’s to the Women: A Live performance of Hope” in 1995.
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Tony Bennett & Patti LaBelle
Picture Credit score: Monty Brinton / ©CBS / courtesy Everett Assortment Tony Bennett and Patti LaBelle on the Tony Bennett: Right here’s To The Women, A Live performance of Hope on December 1, 1995.
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Tony Bennett & okay.d. lang
Picture Credit score: Frank Micelotta/MTV/Courtesy Everett Assortment Tony Bennett and okay.d. lang carry out on ‘MTV Unplugged: Tony Bennett’ on June 1, 1994.
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Elton John & Tony Bennett
Picture Credit score: Scott Gries/ImageDirect/Getty Photos Elton John and Tony Bennett on the Rainforest Basis Profit at Carnegie Corridor in New York Metropolis, NY on April 17, 1999.
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Tony Bennett & Billy Joel
Picture Credit score: Frank Micelotta Archive/Getty Photos Tony Bennett and Billy Joel on the forty second Annual Grammy Awards at Staples Heart in Los Angeles on February 23, 2000.
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The Chicks & Tony Bennett
Picture Credit score: Kevin Mazur/WireImage The Chicks with Tony Bennett throughout The forty fifth Annual GRAMMY Awards – Sony After-Social gathering at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York Metropolis on February 23, 2003.
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Tony Bennett & Sir Paul McCartney
Picture Credit score: Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Photos Tony Bennett and Sir Paul McCartney carry out on the 18th Annual Bridge College Profit occasion held on the Shoreline Amphitheatre on October 23, 2004 in Mountain View, Calif.
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Tony Bennett, Tina Turner, Robert Redford, Julie Harris & Suzanne Farrell
Picture Credit score: Scott Suchman/WireImage Tony Bennett, Tina Turner, Robert Redford, Julie Harris and Suzanne Farrell on the Kennedy Heart Honorees State Division Dinner on December 4, 2005 in Washington, DC.
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Tony Bennett & James Taylor
Picture Credit score: Patrick McMullan/Getty Photos Tony Bennett and James Taylor attend Leisure Trade Basis’s NCCRA Colon Most cancers Profit at Waldorf Astoria NYC USA on March 15, 2006.
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Michael Bublé & Tony Bennett
Picture Credit score: Paul Drinkwater/NBC/Courtesy Everett Assortment Michael Bublé and Tony Bennett photographed in 2006 throughout ‘Tony Bennett: An American Traditional.’
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Tony Bennett on the Emmy Awards
Picture Credit score: Chris Polk/FilmMagic c behind the scenes on the 59th Primetime EMMY Awards on the Shrine Auditorium on September 16, 2007 in Los Angeles, California.
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Tony Bennett on the Frank Sinatra College of the Arts
Picture Credit score: Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage Tony Bennett performs throughout the 2009 Frank Sinatra College of the Arts Commencement ceremony on June 26, 2009 in New York Metropolis.
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Tony Bennett & Amy Winehouse
Picture Credit score: Dave M. Benett/Getty Photos Tony Bennett and Amy Winehouse attend the after present occasion for Tony Bennett’s live performance at Royal Albert Corridor on July 1, 2010 in London, England.
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Juanes & Tony Bennett
Picture Credit score: Larry Busacca/Getty Photos Juanes and Tony Bennett attend the 2010 AFTRA AMEE Awards at The Grand Ballroom at The Plaza Lodge on February 22, 2010 in New York Metropolis.
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Elvis Costello, Diana Krall & Tony Bennett
Picture Credit score: Lester Cohen/WireImage Elvis Costello, Diana Krall and Tony Bennett attend 2011 MusiCares Particular person of the 12 months Tribute to Barbra Streisand at Los Angeles Conference Heart on February 11, 2011 in Los Angeles, California.
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Tony Bennett & Girl Gaga
Picture Credit score: Larry Busacca/Getty Photos Tony Bennett and Girl Gaga carry out onstage throughout The 57th Annual GRAMMY Awards on the STAPLES Heart on February 8, 2015 in Los Angeles, California.
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Celine Dion & Tony Bennett
Picture Credit score: Kevin Mazur/WireImage Celine Dion and Tony Bennett pose backstage throughout “Sinatra 100: An All-Star GRAMMY Live performance” celebrating the late Frank Sinatra’s one hundredth birthday on the Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas on December 2, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Tony Bennett & John Legend
Picture Credit score: Kevin Winter/Getty Photos Tony Bennett and John Legend converse onstage throughout the sixtieth Annual GRAMMY Awards at Madison Sq. Backyard on January 28, 2018 in New York Metropolis.
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Tony Bennett
Picture Credit score: George Pimentel/WireImage Tony Bennett photographed on October 6, 2004 at Fours Seasons Lodge in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
