In 2014, she wanted to give up. ❤️🩹
, both winning Grammys for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album. Bennett earned 41 Grammy nominations over the course of his career and won 19.Lady Gaga hasn’t responded publicly to Tony Bennett’s death yet, but she did recall performing with him at two sold-out shows at Radio City Music Hall in 2021, in what would be his final show ever. “It’s a gift that I will hold in my heart till my last breath.
Gaga also revealed that, in the lead-up, she wasn’t sure that Bennett could remember her name, but when they walked out on stage together, it all came back to him. “That’s the first time that Tony said my name in a long time,” she recalled. “I had to keep it together, because we had a sold-out show, and I have a job to do. But I’ll tell you, when I walked out on that stage, and he said, ‘It’s Lady Gaga,’ my friend saw me. And it was very special.
At the show’s conclusion, Gaga revealed their final moments together. “It’s the last thing that I said to Tony on stage was, ‘Mr. Bennett, it would be my honor if I could escort you off the stage.’ And he said, ‘Okay.’ And I did. And, just simply being the woman that got to walk him off stage, that’s enough for me,” she said.Clearly, Gaga and Bennett shared a special bond.
Bennett died on July 21, 2023. No cause of death was announced. “Tony Bennett, born Anthony Dominick Benedetto in Astoria, Queens on August 3, 1926, has passed away in his hometown of New York City at the age of 96 earlier today,” his publicist Sylvia Weiner told multiple publications like
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