Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett first met at the Robin Hood Foundation gala in New York City where she had performed a version of Nat King Cole’s “Orange Colored Sky.” Bennett asked Gaga to sing a duet with him on his next album 2011’s Duets II, which was timed to his 85th birthday.
Their performance of “The Lady Is a Tramp” would be the first collaboration between the two and the beginning of an enduring friendship that lasted throughout Bennett’s final years.
On Monday, Gaga posted a moving tribute to Bennett, who died recently at the age of 96. “I will miss my friend forever,” she writes.
I will miss singing with him, recording with him, talking with him, being on stage together.” “With Tony, I got to live my life in a time warp.
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