Tony Bennett
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	August 3, 1926 - July 21, 2023 GRAMMY AWARDS: 19

• Bennett hit the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart with "If I Ruled The World."
  Year-End Chart Position: # 274

Bennett was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance - Male (Astoria: Portrait Of The Artist).

Bennett won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance (Perfectly Frank).

Bennett won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance (Steppin' Out).

Bennett was nominated for a MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Video ("Steppin' Out With My Baby").

Bennett won 2 Grammy Awards for Album of the Year and Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance (MTV Unplugged), and was nominated for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals ("Moonglow" with k.d. lang).

Bennett won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album (Here's To The Ladies).

Bennett won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album (On Holiday) and was nominated for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals ("God Bless The Child" with Billie Holiday).

Bennett won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance (Bennett Sings Ellington - Hot & Cool).

Bennett was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals ("New York State Of Mind" with Billy Joel).

Bennett released A Wonderful World with k.d. lang - a collection of Louis Armstrong songs.

Bennett topped the Billboard Jazz Albums chart for 15 weeks with A Wonderful World with k.d. lang.

Bennett won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album (Playin' With My Friends: Bennett Sings The Blues) and was nominated for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals ("What A Wonderful World" with k.d. lang).

Bennett could be heard on Cyndi Lauper's LP At Last with "Makin' Whoopee."

Bennett topped the Billboard Year-End Charts along with k.d. lang with the Top Jazz Album (A Wonderful World).

Bennett won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album (A Wonderful World with k.d. lang) and was nominated for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals ("La Vie En Rose" with k.d. lang).

Bennett released The Art Of Romance.

I Left My Heart In San Francisco was certified platinum.

Bennett won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album (The Art Of Romance).

September 26: Bennett released a collection of duets, Duets: American Classic (Billboard peak: # 3 - Rolling Stone: - Entertainment Weekly: B+).

Bennett topped the Canadian LP charts with Duets: American Classic.

Duets: American Classic was certifeid platinum.
Bennett received the Century Award at the Billboard Music Awards.

Bennett won 2 Grammy Awards for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album (Duets: American Classic) and Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals ("For Once In My Life" with Stevie Wonder).

Bennett's TV special Tony Bennett: An American Classic won 7 Emmy Awards including 1 for Bennett - Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program.
Tony Bennett Sings The Ultimate American Songbook, Vol. 1 was released (Billboard peak: # 16).

Bennett was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals ("Steppin' Out" with Christina Aguilera).

Bennett released the holiday LP A Swingin' Christmas (Billboard peak: # 28).
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Bennett was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album (A Swingin' Christmas).

Bennett released Duets II.

Bennett topped the Billboard 200 LP chart for the first time with Duets II. The LP sold over 179,000 copies its first week of release in the US. Bennett became the oldest living person to top the LP chart.
Duets II was certified gold.

Bennett won 2 Grammy Awards including Best Pop Duo/Group Performance ("Body And Soul") and Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album (Duets II).

Duets II was certified platinum.

October 22: Bennett released Viva Duets.
Billboard peak: # 5
Grammy Nominee: Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3

Bennett & Brubeck: The White House Sessions, Live 1962 was released.

• January 26: Bennett was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album (Viva Duets).

• September 23: Bennett released the collaboration with Lady Gaga, Cheek To Cheek.
  Released: September 23, 2014
  US: Gold
  Billboard Top 200 LPs peak: # 1
  Grammy Winner: Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
  Tracks: "Anything Goes" - "Cheek To Cheek" - "Don't Wait Too Long" - "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" - "Nature Boy" - "Goody Goody" - "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" - "Firefly" - "I Won't Dance" - "They All Laughed" - "Lush Life" - "Sophisticated Lady" - "Let's Face The Music And Dance" - "But Beautiful" - "It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"
  available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3

• October 11: Bennett topped the Billboard 200 LP chart with Lady Gaga, Cheek To Cheek. The LP sold over 131,000 copies its first week of release in the US.

• December 31: Bennett topped the Billboard 2014 Year-End Chart Toppers chart as the Top Jazz Album Artist and with the Top Jazz Album (Cheek To Cheek with Lady Gaga).

• February 6: Cheek To Cheek was certified gold.
• February 8: Bennett won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album (Cheek To Cheek with Lady Gaga).

• September 25: Bennett and Bill Charlap released The Silver Lining - The Songs Of Jerome Kern.
  Tracks: "All The Things You Are" - "Pick Yourself Up" - "The Last Time I Saw Paris" - "I Won't Dance" - "Long Ago And Far Away" - "Dearly Beloved" - "The Song Is You" - "They Didn't Believe Me" - "I'm Old Fashioned" - "The Way You Look Tonight" - "Yesterdays" - "Make Believe" - "Nobody Else But Me" - "Look For The Silver Lining"
  Grammy Winner: Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
  available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3

• December 31: Bennett topped the Billboard 2015 Year-End Chart Toppers as the Top Jazz Album Artist and with the Top Jazz Album ("Cheek To Cheek" with Lady Gaga).

• February 15: Bennett won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album (The Silver Lining - The Songs Of Jerome Kern).

• December 16: Tony Bennett Celebrates 90 was released.

• September 14: Tony released Love Is Here To Stay with Diana Krall.
  Tracks: "'S Wonderful" - "My One And Only" - "But Not For Me" - "Nice Work If You Can Get It' - "Love Is Here To Stay" - "I Got Rhythm" - "Somebody Loves Me" - "Do It Again" - "I've Got A On You" - "Fascinating Rhythm" - "They Can't Take That Away From Me' _ "Who Cares?"
  Billboard Top 200 LPs peak: # 11
  Grammy Nominee: Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
  available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
  available on vinyl

• December 31: Tony topped the Billboard 2018 Year-End Chart Toppers with the Top Jazz Album (Love Is Here To Stay).

• February 10: Tony was nominated for 2 Grammy Awards including Best Pop Duo/Group Performance ("'S Wonderful" with Diana Krall) and Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album (Love Is Here To Stay with Diana Krall).

• February 12: Duets: American Classic was certified 2x platinum, Snowfall: The Christmas Album was certfied platinum, and The Good Life was certified gold.

• October 1: Tony with Lady Gaga released Love For Sale.
  Billboard Top 200 LPs peak: # 8
  Tracks: "It's De-Lovely" - "Night And Day" - "Love For Sale" - "Do I Love You" - "I Concentrate On You" - "I Get A Kick Out Of You" - "So In Love" - "Let's Do It" - "Just One Of Those Things" - "Dream Dancing"
  available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
  available on vinyl

• April 3: Tony won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album (Love For Sale with Lady Gaga), and was nominated for Album of the Year (Love For Sale) and Record of the Year, Best Pop Duo/Group Performance and Best Music Video ("I Get A Kick Out Of You" with Lady Gaga).

• July 21: Tony died at the age of 96.