Tony Bennett has passed away. The prolific, generation-spanning crooner died at home in Manhattan this morning (July 21) after a well-publicized, years-long battle with Alzheimers disease, his publicist Sylvia Weiner has confirmed.
Born in 1926 to a grocer and a seamstress, Anthony Dominick Benedetto was raised in Queens, New York. He was an early bloomer, and the comedian Bob Hope took him under his wing when he was still fresh from World War II duty, bringing him on tour in 1949.
He scored his first number one hit, “Because of You,” in 1951, at the age of 25. Read Next: Jon Batiste’s We Are wins Album of the Year at the 2022 Grammys.
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