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Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett is an American popular music, standards, and jazz singer who has successfully established himself as one of the best interpretative singers in these genres.

In the 1950s and early-1960s, He was able to achieve artistic and commercial success. His career suffered an extended downturn during the height of the rock music era; however, Bennett staged a remarkable comeback in the late-1980s and 1990s. While keeping his musical style intact, he expanded his audience to a younger generation.He remains a popular and critically praised recording artist and concert performer in the 2000s.Tony Bennett is also an accomplished painter.

Early life
Anthony Benedetto was born in Astoria, Queens in New York City on August 3, 1926. His father was a grocer and his mother a seamstress.

At his early age, He used to listen to Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor, Judy Garland, Bing Crosby, and jazz artists such as Louis Armstrong, Jack Teagarden, and Joe Venuti. The young Benedetto was performing at the opening of the Triborough Bridge as a singer by age 10. He studied music and painting while attending New York's High School of Industrial Art but dropped out at age 16 to help support his family. He then became more serious in starting professional singing career. He used to perform as a singing waiter in several Queens Italian restaurants.

An unexpected audience
The classic American song had received great appreciated from many artists and listeners due to the the excesses of the disco, punk rock, and new wave eras by the mid-1980s. Rock stars such as Linda Ronstadt began recording albums of standards. In movie soundtracks and on television commercials, there was more frequent showing of such songs. Although younger audiences were completely unfamiliar with Tony Bennett, yet Danny Bennett had great belief in Tony Bennett's music. He was sure that younger audiences would respond to Tony's music if they were given a chance to see and hear it even. Tony Bennet was successful in having a solid connection with a younger crowd weaned on rock with his appearances at MTV Video Music Awards shows side by side with the likes of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Flavor Flav, and as his "Steppin' Out With My Baby" video received MTV airplay. According to the New York Times, "Tony Bennett has not just bridged the generation gap, he has demolished it."

With Bennett's appearance in 1994 on MTV Unplugged, the new audience reached its height. The show attracted a considerable audience and much media attention as it was featuring guest appearances by rock and country stars Elvis Costello and k.d. lang (both of whom had a profound respect for the standards genre). The resulting MTV Unplugged: Tony Bennett album went platinum. He received the Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance Grammy award for the third straight year. The top Grammy prize of Album of the Year was also won by him. At age 68, Tony Bennett had come all the way back. Since then Bennett has continued recording and touring steadily.

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In concert Bennett often makes a point of singing one song (usually "Fly Me to the Moon") without any microphone or amplification. In this way, the lost art of vocal projection is demonstrated by him to younger audience.One show, Tony Bennett's Wonderful World: Live From San Francisco, was made into a PBS special. Bennett also won an Emmy Award for starring in the first, of the A&E Network's Live By Request series.

A series of his albums have been greatly applauded. These are often based on themes (Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, blues, duets). Bennett has the honor of winning seven more Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance or Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album Grammys in the subsequent years, most recently for the year 2006. Bennett has been successful in selling over 50 million records throughout his career.

Worldwide during his career.
Bennett enjoyed his numerous television guest performances. In addition to his T.V performances, he has had cameo appearances as himself in films such as The Scout, Analyze This, and Bruce Almighty.

Tony Bennett has a great artistic mind. He had a great love for painting right from his childhood. His career as a painter has also flourished. He sketches or paints every day, even of views out of hotel windows when he is on tour. Painting has exhibited his work in numerous galleries under his real name of Benedetto. His painting "Homage to Hockney" (for his friend David Hockney) is on permanent display at the highly regarded Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio .

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