Tony Bennett
August 3, 1926 - July 21, 2023
Jazz and traditional pop singer
Awards -
20 Grammy Awards
Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
2 Primetime Emmy Awards
Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Honors -
Named an NEA Jazz Master
(National Endowment for the Arts - NEA)
Kennedy Center Honoree
Over 50 million records sold worldwide
Bronze Medallion in New York City (1969)
Inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame (1997)
Society of Singers Lifetime Achievement Award (2000)
Lifetime Achievement Award (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, 2002)
Inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame (2005)
Humanitarian Award (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 2006)
Inducted into the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame (2007)
Golden Plate Award (American Academy of Achievement
Inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame (2011)
"Because of You" (1951)
No. 1 on Billboard charts
Staple in future performances
Founder of the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts
(Queens, New York)
Point of interest - Tony Bennett set 3 Guinness World Records
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