Tony Bennett

Tony Bennett sits in a category of his own for me. Born Anthony Benedetto in Queens, he turned traditional pop and jazz into something timeless, gathering twenty Grammys, a Lifetime Achievement Award, Kennedy Center Honors, and a place as a Library of Congress Living Legend. What moves me most is not the trophies but his refusal to fade; he kept performing and recording with younger artists well into his nineties. He was also a gifted painter, proof of a genuinely deep artistic soul. He passed in 2023 at 96, yet that warm, unhurried voice still sounds eternal. I revere him.

Name (English)

Tony Bennett

Name (Japanese)

トニー・ベネット

Reading

とにー・べねっと

Born

August 3, 1926 – July 21, 2023

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Tiger

Origin

Queens, New York, United States

Occupation

singer / painter / autobiographer / jazz musician / actor

High school

High School of Art and Design

Awards & achievements

• 2007 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Special
• 2001 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
• 1995 MusiCares Person of the Year
• 2015 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
• Library of Congress Living Legend
• 2005 Kennedy Center Honors
• 2017 Gershwin Prize
• star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

• Official sitehttps://tonybennett.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/itstonybennett/
• Xhttps://x.com/itstonybennett
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%20Bennett
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%99%E3%83%8D%E3%83%83%E3%83%88
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q296729

Tags

• New York
• singer
• painter
• autobiographer

Last updated

2026-06-16

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.