Tony Bennett: Legendary singer dies aged 96

Tony Bennett, the legendary New York popular and jazz singer, has died aged 96.

Bennett was known for songs specified arsenic The Way You Look Tonight, Body and Soul and (I Left My Heart) In San Francisco.

But besides for his performances with singers from Lady Gaga to Aretha Franklin to Frank Sinatra, who called him "the champion vocalist successful the business".

During a vocation that spanned 7 decades, the crooner sold millions of records and won 20 Grammys, including a beingness accomplishment award.

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