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Remembering Tony Bennett

1926–2023

I Wanna Be Around by Tony Bennett — cover art

Anthony Dominick Benedetto, known professionally as Tony Bennett, was an American jazz and traditional pop singer. He received many accolades, including 20 Grammy Awards, a Lifetime Achievement Award, and two Primetime Emmy Awards. Bennett was named a National Endowments for the Arts Jazz Master and a Kennedy Center Honoree. He founded the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Astoria, Queens, New York, along with Exploring the Arts, a non-profit arts education program. He sold more than 50 million records worldwide and earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Remembering Tony Bennett in song

I Wanna Be Around by Tony Bennett — cover art
I Wanna Be Around
Tony Bennett
1963

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