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8:30 PM SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2018
PAVILION
ANTONIA BENNETT
TONY BENNETT
TONY BENNETT
Born in Queens, NY, in
, Tony Bennett be-
gan to cultivate his passion for music at the High
School of Industrial Arts in Manhattan. As a boy
he was greatly in uenced by the vocals of Bing
Crosby and Nat “King” Cole, helping de ne his
instantly recognizable singing style. Bennett
sang whenever he could: while waiting tables as
a teenager, with military bands when he was in
the service, and then at the American
eatre
Wing School. He began to sing at nightclubs in
, his big break coming three years later when
Bob Hope checked out his act and approached
him a er the show with an invitation to sing
with him at the Paramount. Dozens of gold and
platinum albums and Grammy Awards later,
Bennett is one of a handful of artists to have new
albums make the charts in every decade since
the
s. His
recording
Duets II
made him
the oldest artist ever to have a
Billboard
num-
ber-one album, a distinction he extended with
’s
Cheek to Cheek
with Lady Gaga. A new
collaborative album,
Love Is Here to
Stay with
Diana Krall, is due out later this month. Bennett
has been presented some of the highest honors
in American performance: lifetime achievement
awards from the Grammys in
and from
ASCAP in
, the Kennedy Center Honors in
,
Billboard
’s Century Award in
—when
he was also named a NEA Jazz Master and his
NBC primetime special
Tony Bennett: An Amer-
ican Classic
received seven Emmy Awards, mak-
ing it the most honored program of that year—
and the United Nations’ Humanitarian Award in
. Bennett is also a passionate painter, and
has had works accepted into both the Smithso-
nian Museum of American Art and the Smith-
sonian’s National Portrait Gallery. His oil paint-
ing
Ravinia: Music Under the Stars
is displayed
in the lobby of Ravinia’s Dining Pavilion. Tony
Bennett gave his rst performance at Ravinia in
, and tonight marks his st season at the
festival and th performance.
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