He and he alone can and should be active in the writing: that he is the oldest singer ever standing

He and he alone can and should be active in the writing: that he is the oldest singer ever standing with an album in the first place on Billboard's album charts at age 85. In 2006 he received a Grammy for his album Duets and six years later he even got two, this time for the successor Duets II. His name Tony Bennett!
Anthony Benedetto comes from a family of three children, son of Anna Suraci and John Benedetto. John's father, Giovanni, was a purebred Italian Podargoni born in the Italian province of Reggio Calabria. At the end of the 19th century there was a veritable invasion of Italians going to America. The whole family Benedetto went looking for the big American dream. John had no strong health, had nowhere had concerns. Started, so mom for money Say that Anthony and his brother John Jr.. and his sister Mary grew up in poverty, is certainly no exaggeration. Anthony, born 3rd August 1926, was only ten when his father died. America groans under the depression. Fortunately, there is the immediate family in order to stabbing treeswijkhoeve a hand., And a great When Dad was alive, he learned to keep his children. Art and literature Music was there: Eddie Cantor, Joe Venuti, Enrico Caruso, Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Al Jolson ... The Bennett family lived in Queens, New York. One day, Mayor Fiorello La Guardia organizes a party following the inauguration of The Triborough Bridge and Anthony can sing. This bridge connects three of the five boroughs, residential communities, in New York: Manhattan, Queens and The Bronx. The 11th July 1936, the bridge opened to traffic. Because they are at home rather strapped for cash, is Anthony at thirteen in Italian restaurants serve in Queens and singing. He is fond of drawing and so he divides his time between his two passions. Because he is so handy with designing and sketching figures schrijfthij in the High School of Industrial Art in New York. Here he can also study music. But at home, it is increasingly financially worse off and at sixteen hooks Anthony qua studies definitively. Because he as a professional singer in the bucket can not immediately, he works at The Associated Press in Manhattan and tries to jobs wherever possible. Singing do not let go. He wins here and there a singing contest and performs successfully and regularly in the Paramus, a nightclub in neighboring New Jersey. When World War II drawing to an end, should Anthony under arms. He receives training at Fort Dix and Fort Robinson. He is part of the 255th Regiment of the 63rd Infantary Infantary Division. He pulls them to the battlefield and actually ends up that way in France and Germany. He experiences the whole thing as a hellish operation and escaped several times very nearly to death. At the end of the war, he is also the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp in Landsberg it.
Tony continues for a while in Germany and acts there as Joe Bari along with the Army Special Services treeswijkhoeve Band. The name Bari he borrows from a region in Italy (a popular singer in that region is later Nicola di Bari). In 1946 he was discharged from the army, returns to New York and goes there to follow The American treeswijkhoeve Theatre Wing singing lessons. The government found that young soldiers who had missed to follow a proper schooling their chance during the war now be given a second chance. They may choose their school, the government itself is responsible for the expenses. The American Theatre Wing was founded in 1939 in Manhattan by the ladies Rachel Crothers and Antoinette Perry. After the Second World War, they tend to focus on the care of war veterans to give them some relaxation and provide soldiers the opportunity to work. Theater in the world Bennett will learn even sing opera arias and art of bel canto style gives him an excellent ademshalingstechniek that will come. Still very useful to him later Bennett is looking for a record company that wants to work with him and ends up in the small Leslie Records Label that some singles releases, but even a dog who has ears. In 1949 he was asked by the famous musical singer Pearl Bailey in Greenwich Village to act in a show with Bob Hope. Hope is sold on the talent of Anthony and asks if he does not want to tour with him on condition that he changed his name to Tony Bennett. During their performances treeswijkhoeve include Tony sings the song Boulevard of Broken Dreams, a 1933 song written by Al Dubin and Harvey Warren and the following year became known when it pops up in the film Moulin Rouge. Tony is a demo version that comes to the attention of Mitch Miller of Columbia Records and platenco