Tony Bennett, US singer with seven-decade career, dies aged 96
Tony Bennett won 19 Grammy awards, including a lifetime achievement award in 2001, and has sold over 50m records worldwide. Picture: PA
Tony Bennett, the American pop and jazz singer who became the torchbearer for the Great American Songbook during a seven-decade career, has died aged 96, his publicist said on Friday.
Bennett was perhaps best known for his 1962 signature song 'I Left My Heart in San Francisco' as well as for staging an astonishing career comeback during the '80s and '90s that delivered him sustained popularity into old age. He won 19 Grammy awards, including a lifetime achievement award in 2001, and has sold over 50m records worldwide.
