He collected 20 Grammy Awards, found immortality with 'I Left My Heart in San Francisco' and connected with a younger generation to mount one of the great comebacks in music history.
, the treasured American storyteller, singer and showman whose joyful impact on the pop and jazz landscape spanned 70 years and stretched from Queens to San Francisco and all around the world, died Friday. He was 96.
Bennett died in his hometown of New York, his publicist Sylvia Weiner said. In February 2021, he revealed that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease five years earlier, but he soldiered on, in the recording studio and on tour, rarely performing a song the same way twice.headlined two shows at New York’s Radio City Music Hall in August 2021, after which he announced he was canceling his fall tour.
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