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• On August 3rd, 1926, in Astoria, Queens, New York City, USA, Tony Bennett was born Anthony Dominick Benedetto and is best known for being an artist in many genres of music, including jazz, show tunes, and pop. 
• With revenue from his painting activity, for which there are many exhibits and for which he has been lauded as having great talent in art, the total sum of Tony Bennett’s net worth has been increased. 
• It is important to note that he changes his name to his real name, Anthony Benedetto when Tony paints. 
• After the establishment of the Frank Sinatra School of Arts, situated in New York City, Tony Bennett’s net worth increased even further. 
• Sources estimate that, over more than five decades, Tony has managed to save a net worth of $110 million throughout his career as a successful singer. 
• Tony Bennett grew up in a very poor household, and when his father died when Tony was nine years old, it was even more difficult. 
• Tony was a student at New York City’s High School for Industrial Arts, making some money at the same time while working as a singing waiter. 
• The talent of Tony attracted the singer, Pearl Bailey, and in the early 1950s, when he signed a deal with Columbia Records, he was later noted in the music industry. 
• In 1951, his first single, Because of You, was recorded. 
• These singles added fame to Tony Bennett’s net worth as well as huge sales. 
• Tony mainly played pop music at the beginning of his singing career, but he later concentrated on jazz music. 
• Tony worked hard and he became known internationally for his singing in the late 1950s. 
• A few songs, especially Bennett Sings, The Beat of My Heart, and Basie Swings with the Count Basie Band, were well sold. 
• I Left My Heart in San Francisco, released in 1962, is regarded to be his best-known song. 
• An American Icon, an album recorded together with Sting, Bono, Elton John, Barbra Streisand, and Elvis Costello, was released in 2006 by Tony Bennett: Duets. 
• His Tony Bennett II album contains a 2011 released duet entitled “Body and soul” with Amy Winehouse. 
• Tony sold more than 50 million albums worldwide during his long career. 
• Tony Bennett has been married three times in his personal life, firstly to Patricia Beach (1952-71), then to Sandra Grant (1971-2007) and since 2007 to Susan Crow; he has four children. 
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• [in 2014] The songs that are written today, most of them are terrible. It’s a very bad period musically throughout the world for popular music. The corporations took it over and they want to make so much money and they don’t care whether the public likes it or not. They think the public is ignorant, so their attitude is, “Don’t give them anything intelligent because it won’t sell”.
• In the ’20s, ’30s and ’40s, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin and Cole Porter would not have anyone else introduce their songs except Fred Astaire. He was their favorite. The songs were a renaissance in our young country. The public still doesn’t realize that it’s the best thing that we’ve ever contributed to the rest of the world. Because everybody in the world, no matter where I go, loves those songs. They know them. I’m convinced that 35, 40 years from now popular music–what the British call light entertainment–will be called America’s classical music.
• [on attempting to categorize popular music generationally] I’m anti-demographic. I never liked it when [record labels] split it up and said, “This is your music, and your parents like something else”. I thought that was an incorrect way of treating the public. You know, if you’re an entertainer, you’re really just supposed to sing to an audience. You don’t care what the their ages are. That’s almost a Nazi attitude.
• [on painting] It’s everything to me. To have a view on Central Park and watch the four seasons and the great vastness of the sky–it changes every day. Rembrandt said it: “There’s only one master–that’s nature”. It gives me unbelievable subjects to study and paint.
• If you don’t care whether the audience is going to respond right back at you, you’re a fool. The ones who fail are the ones who don’t care whether you like it or not.
• You’re only as good as your next show. You never know, quite what’s happening. You need butterflies.
• For many years I was told I wasn’t doing disco or whatever. I just kept singing good songs. I was turned down by an awful lot of fellows in the record business, who would tell me, “You’re not what’s happening”. I’d say, “Well, it’s going to last somehow, I know it”. And it did. I feel very gratified for it.
• The audience is never cold. If they’re cold that means you’re cold. You gotta walk out there energized. [Frank Sinatra] taught me that years ago.
• My ambition is to actually sound better as I get older. It’s all about meaning it more, giving it more depth. Being genuine.
• [on the massive rock-and-roll concert scene] When the music executives saw how much money they could make, they went into ballparks and giant outdoor venues. The more people they got, they acted like they’re bigger than anybody else. My answer to them is: “Adolf Hitler had more people than that, and he was lousy”.
• [on being asked to perform in films] Because I’m Italian-American they were all gangster movies. I didn’t want to put my [people] down. I’m the only guy that didn’t like The Godfather (1972). I didn’t like The Sopranos (1999). I don’t like that Jersey thing they’ve got going.
• God forbid, if something happened and I couldn’t sing well I would just paint for the rest of my life.
• [at Amy Winehouse’s death] She was an extraordinary musician with a rare intuition as a vocalist. When we recorded together she gave a soulful and extraordinary performance. I was honored to have the opportunity to sing with her.
• [on Amy Winehouse] Of all the contemporary artists I know, she has the most natural jazz voice, but I’m worried about her and I’m praying for her. She’d help everyone by sobering up and cleaning up her spirituality.
• I sing in Asia and I sing in Europe, and I start singing a Cole Porter song or a [George Gershwin] song and the whole audience starts singing it with me. They are America’s greatest ambassadors. We have created the greatest popular music that has ever been written and will not be topped because it’s not dated. It doesn’t sound old-fashioned, it’s not old. The corporations will say, “That’s old music”. It’s NOT old music, it’s great music and it comes out of the United States.
• [1987, on Judy Garland] She was the very best there was. In our profession, no one could command an audience the way she did. Of course, she had the most marvelous training. At MGM there were so many people to tell her what to do, how to make the best of herself. Tragic? Oh yes.
• We all know how wonderful Peggy Lee sings, but let’s not forget what a great composer she is as well.
• I have traveled around the world to Asia and Europe. They show you what they have contributed to the world. The British show you theater, the Italians show you music and art, the French show you cooking and painting, and the Germans show you science. The only thing that the United States, which is still a young country, has contributed culturally to the world is jazz–elongated improvisation. It’s tragic. Fifty years from now people will be bowing to Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, just like impressionist painters like Monet, who were starving in their day. The Americans don’t even know what they have come up with.
• But what’s interesting to me is knowing the past masters that I knew–Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Cary Grant, Fred Astaire, and I’m really name-dropping here–when they were my age, even before that, in their early 70s, they were very prestigious, but it was very difficult for them to get a film or make a recording. My son acquired about six months ago a huge contract with Columbia/Sony which goes into millions of dollars for two albums over a four-year period, and then if I do two more after that they’ll give me an extra half a million for each album. That’s unheard of for someone of my age! He’s got it turned around to a point where I’ve never been more exposed and out there. Last year was the most successful year in my life in show business, and it was also the most tragic, because my sister and brother died. It’s just life. [William Shakespeare] said that. It’s the yin and yang of life. No matter how successful it is, there’s always something that says, “Whoops!”.
• When you’re young you think, “What shall I do–the movies, a sitcom?” But that went away. I did Hollywood for a while and had the great pleasure of taking advice from Fred Astaire and Cary Grant–two of the classiest guys that ever lived–and they both told me how to play so you don’t get overexposed. Cary Grant told me, “Just do cameos in films, it’s the most boring business in the world”. He said, “Just go and become a performer in front of audiences–you’re alive, they’re cheering you”. I liked it when they asked [him], “Why did you retire?” and he said, “I got tired of walking on cables”.
• [about his military service during World War II] It gave me a social conscience. And the war itself made me a pacifist; I just know that every gun in the world should melt somehow and as soon as possible. But that looks impossible now.
• It’s an interesting thing. When Coretta Scott King passed away recently they had a memorial where they refreshed people’s minds about Martin Luther King, and the idea of non-violence. And now in America you’re suddenly seeing war movies again on TV–they never showed war movies until recently–and how great it is to be patriotic. It’s wrong. The day and age we live in now, it’s all full of fear and frightening feelings. It’s the opposite of [Franklin D. Roosevelt] saying, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”. Now we’re saying, “Look out, this is going to happen”. We’re being told, “Get frightened”. This business of machoism is ridiculous. I’m not interested in that. I search for truth and beauty in what I do.
• I only met Bing Crosby once. He called me the best singer he’d ever heard.

Tony Bennett Important Facts

• His favorite movie is The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948).
• Sting (“The Boulevard of Broken Dreams”), Bono (“I Wanna Be Around”), Juanes (“The Shadow of Your Smile”), Lady Gaga (“The Lady is a Tramp”), Elton John (“Rags to Riches”), Billy Joel (“The Good Life”), Stevie Wonder (“For Once in My Life”), Michael Bublé (“Just in Time”), Josh Groban (“This is All I Ask”), Céline Dion (“If I Ruled the World”), Mariah Carey (“When Do the Bells Ring for Me”), k.d. lang (“Blue Velvet”), Christina Aguilera (“Steppin’ Out With My Baby”), Diana Krall (“I’ve Got the World On a String”), Elvis Costello (“Are You Havin’ Any Fun?”), Andrea Bocelli (“Stranger in Paradise”), James Taylor (“Put On a Happy Face”), Norah Jones (“Speak Low”), Aretha Franklin (“How Do You Keep the Music Playing?”), Natalie Cole (“Watch What Happens”), Queen Latifah (“Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me”)), Amy Winehouse (“Body and Soul”), Willie Nelson (“On the Sunny Side of the Street”), Alejandro Sanz (“Yesterday I Heard the Rain”), Dixie Chicks (“Lullaby of Broadway”), John Legend (“Sing You Sinners”), Carrie Underwood (“It Had to Be You”), Faith Hill (“The Way You Look Tonight”), Sheryl Crow (“The Girl I Love”),- Tim McGraw (“Cold, Cold Heart”), etc.
• Tony’s duet with wunderkind Jackie Evancho on “When You Wish Upon a Star” marked a unique collaboration, considering the age gap between both artists was over 73 years.
• As of November 2010 he was living in Englewood, NJ, USA.
• In 2011 when he recorded “Body and Soul” with Amy Winehouse for his “Duets II” album, it would mark her final recording before her untimely death. The age gap between both artists was just over 57 years.
• Father, with Patricia Beech, of son Danny Bennett, who is also Tony’s manager.
• With his 15th and 16th wins at the 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards–Best Pop Duo/Group Performance (with Amy Winehouse) for “Body and Soul” and Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for “Duets II”–Bennett captured the record for the longest Grammy participation span of 49 years between wins.
• In 2011 his Belvedere (CA) mansion–9500 sq.ft / 5 bedrooms, 7 bathrooms, 7-car parking) went on sale with an asking price of $27.5 million.
• Signs his paintings/portraits simply “Benedetto”, his birth name.
• When 85-year-old Bennett’s album “Duets II” topped the Billboard 200 chart in September of 2011 he became the oldest living artist in history to capture the peak position. The record had previously been held by Bob Dylan, whose “Together Through Life” (2009) debuted at #1 when Dylan was 67. In September 2014 Bennett broke his own record at age 88 when his duet album “Cheek to Cheek” with Lady Gaga also debuted at #1.
• His chance to perform at the Triborough Bridge opening in 1936 was arranged by his uncle Frank, the Queens Borough library commissioner. There he stood next to and received pats on the head from legendary Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.
• He was inducted into the 2011 New Jersey Hall of Fame for his contributions to the Arts and Entertainment Industry.
• He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 1560 Vine St.
• On Jan. 4, 2007, he sang “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” at the celebrations for the inauguration of Nancy Pelosi as first female Speaker of the House of Representatives.
• Former New York Governor Mario Cuomo and his wife, Matilda Cuomo, were witnesses to the civil ceremony between Tony & Susan Crow.
• Founded, with his wife Susan Crow, the charitable organization “Exploring the Arts”.
• His daughter Antonia Bennett has sung alongside her father since the age of four.
• Despite his hit ballad song, “I Left My Heart In San Francisco,” he was actually born in New York.
• Recipient of the 2005 Kennedy Center Honors. Other recipients were Robert Redford, Tina Turner, Suzanne Farrell, and Julie Harris.
• He is an accomplished painter with an art studio in New York City, USA.
• Inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame in 1997.
• In 2001 he founded The Frank Sinatra High School of Performing Arts in Queens, NY, named after his long-time friend Frank Sinatra.
• On May 20, 2002, he received the Pied Piper lifetime achievement award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.
• Bob Hope suggested Tony change his stage name from “Joe Bari” to “Tony Bennett.”
• Was a close friend of Frank Sinatra.
• Well known for hit ballads like “I Left My Heart In San Francisco” (a come back hit released in 1962), and “Rags to Riches” (released in 1954).

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