He has toured the world to sold out audiences with rave reviews whenever he performs. He introduced a multitude of songs into the great American Songbook that have since become standards for pop music.
Tony Bennett - booking information Tony Bennett is one of a handful of artists to have new albums charting in the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's. He has had 24 songs in the Top 40, including "I Wanna Be Around," "The Good Life," "Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)" and his signature song, "I Left My Heart In San Francisco," which garnered him two Grammy Awards. His initial successes came via a string of Columbia singles in the early 1950's, including such chart-toppers as "Because of You," "Rags To Riches" and a remake of Hank Williams' "Cold, Cold Heart" and has ten Grammy Awards to his credit, including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. A new Americanized name, the start of a wonderful career and a glorious adventure that has continued for fifty years." I told him, 'My name is Anthony Dominick Benedetto,' and he said, 'We'll call you Tony Bennett.' And that's how it happened. He liked my singing so much that after the show he came back to see me in my dressing room and said, 'Come on kid, you're going to come to the Paramount and sing with me.' But first he told me he didn't care for my stage name (Joe Bari) and asked me what my real name was. As Bennett recalls, "Bob Hope came down to check out my act. The first time he sang in a nightclub was 1946 when he sat in with trombonist Tyree Glenn at the Shangri-La in Astoria.īennett's big break came in 1949 when comedian Bob Hope noticed him working with Pearl Bailey in Greenwich Village in New York City. He later had vocal studies at the American Theatre Wing school. Tony Bennett sang while waiting tables as a teenager then performed with military bands during his Army enlistment in World War II. His boyhood idols included Bing Crosby and Nat King Cole, both big influences on his easy, natural singing style. He attended the High School of Industrial Arts in Manhattan, where he continued nurturing his two passions - singing and painting. The son of a grocer and Italian-born immigrant, Anthony Dominick Benedetto was born on August 3, 1926, in the Astoria section of Queens.
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