TONY BENNETT MAKES MUSICAL HISTORY YET AGAIN AHEAD OF JANUARY 31st GRAMMY AWARDS

Nov 24, 2021

By Jane Brown

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Tony Bennett has made history again.

The legendary crooner has been nominated, alongside Lady Gaga for five Grammy Awards, including album of the year for Love for Sale and record of the year for I get a kick out of you.

With these nominations, 95 year old Tony Bennett becomes the oldest artist ever nominated in a general field category and the second oldest nominee overall in Grammy history.

The oldest Grammy nominee and winner is Pinetop Perkins, the Mississippi-born blues pianist and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner, who at the age of 97 in 2011 won the Grammy for traditional blues album.

In addition to album and record of the year, Bennett and Gaga are nominated for pop duo/group performance, traditional pop vocal album and music video.

The duo’s first collaborative album, a 2014 collection of jazz standards titled Cheek to Cheek, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, making Bennett the oldest artist ever to top the chart with newly recorded material. Cheek to Cheek won the Grammy for traditional pop vocal album in 2015.

Bennett won his first Grammy in 1963, for his now-signature ballad, “I Left My Heart in San Francisco.” The song won the honors for both record of the year and male vocal performance that year.

Bennett has won a total of 20 Grammy awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001. He last won in 2018, for Tony Bennett Celebrates 90, which was awarded traditional pop vocal album. He has won the category 13 times.

Bennett was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2016. In October, he was profiled in a segment for 60 Minutes, which featured scenes from his final run of shows at New York’s Radio City Music Hall in August.

Although Bennett sang over a dozen songs, he did not recall the performance in his interview with Anderson Cooper, and answered questions with assistance from his wife, philanthropist Susan Crow.

The 64th Grammy Awards will take place on Jan. 31st at L.A.’s Staples Center.

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