Tony Bennett - Anthony Dominick Benedetto, August 3, 1926, born at St. John's Hospital in Long Island City, Queens. Parents emigrated from the Calabria region in 1899 (Reggio Calabria) Other relatives came over as well as part of the mass migration of Italians to America. Tony Bennett is a true Italian American legend. Possessing one of the smoothest and richest voices ever committed to vinyl, he made his name in the years after World War II but before the advent of rock n' roll, singing his way through familiar jazz and traditional pop favorites but making them his own every time. Alongside contemporaries like Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, he loomed large in pop culture — forever one of the coolest guys in the room and mesmerizing an audience as he crooned tunes of love, (AMORE).

Italian American Golden Era

* From my own cd and vinyl collection
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