The American crooner Tony Bennet (1926 - 2023) has an amazing voice. Soft, if necessary, like the real crooners, but being raised in a time there were not always microphones in concert halls, he also has a powerful trained voice for singing belcanto. In 1936 at age 10, the grandson of poor Italian immigrants was already singing and tapdancing, to earn some money for the family. After serving in WWII, he fought in Germany and France, it is Bob Hope who discovers Bennett in the early fifties. Although bigshots in the record industrie feared he would turn out to become a Frank Sinatra clone, he managed to develop his own style. It's almost hard to believe that this man at high age still performed with and was an inspiration for current stars like Michale Bublé, Lady Gaga, Norah Jones and the late Amy Winehouse. In this clip, he performs one of his Populaire songs in the famous Dutch TV-Show "Wedden Dat". The recording was made in 1988, shortly before he made a big comeback in his career, that included a great MTV-unplugged album and various Grammy Awards.
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