Friday 3 June 2011

Lady Gaga to sing on Tony Bennett's Duets II album

Lady Gaga
According to published reports, Lady Gaga is the latest musician added to the list of those collaborating with Tony Bennett. For his new album "Duets II", Bennett will sing with such artists as Mariah Carey, Aretha Franklin, Amy Winehouse, Michael Bublé and John Mayer. The album will be released on September 20.

American icon Tony Bennett will celebrate his 85th birthday this year with a new CD, "Tony Bennett: Duets II" which will be released in Ireland on Fridy 16th September. Bennett has already begun the live recording process with several artists during Grammy week in February at LA's famed Capitol Studios. Subsequent sessions are planned for this Spring in New York, Nashville and Italy. "Duets II", produced by Phil Ramone, follows up "Tony Bennett Duets: An American Classic" CD, the 2006 Grammy-winning, best-selling CD which became Bennett's best-selling recording to date.

Entering his seventh decade as a recording artist with over 100 albums and 15 Grammy Awards including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Bennett has earned his legendary status many times over. He remains the Columbia recording artist with the greatest longevity at the label. His 2007 prime-time special, "Tony Bennett: An American Classic", won seven Emmy Awards. A visual artist as well, three of his original paintings are part of the Permanent Collection at the Smithsonian. His humanitarian efforts are renowned and the United Nations honoured him with their Humanitarian Award in 2007. He has published three books - his autobiography, "The Good Life" and two books of his paintings, "Tony Bennett: What My Heart Has Seen", and "Tony Bennett In the Studio; A Life of Art and Music". Bennett founded, in association with the Department of Education in New York City, the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts - a public arts high school in his hometown of Astoria, Queens. With his wife Susan, he established Exploring the Arts, a charitable organisation which supports arts education in NYC public high schools. Exploring the Arts supports seven additional public high schools throughout New York City.

(Broadway World)



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