Tony Bennett, 95, becomes second-oldest Grammy winner with traditional pop album award

Get a kick out of this: On the age of 95, jazz singer Tony Bennett has develop into the second-oldest winner of a Grammy Award.

Bennett, along with pop celebrity Girl Gaga, gained the Grammy for conventional pop vocal album for 2021’s “Love for Sale,” their assortment of Cole Porter requirements.

The pair had been nominated in 5 classes, together with album of the 12 months for “Love for Sale” and file of the 12 months for “I Get a Kick Out of You.”

Upon receiving these nominations, Bennett grew to become the oldest artist ever nominated in a “basic discipline” class, and the second-oldest nominee in Grammy historical past.

The oldest Grammy winner is Pinetop Perkins, the Mississippi-born blues pianist. He claimed the honors on the 2011 Grammys, the place his recording “Joined on the Hip” gained for conventional blues album. Perkins, 97, died the next month on March 21.

Bennett obtained his first Grammy nominations on the fifth Grammy Awards in 1963. He took residence honors for file of the 12 months and solo vocal efficiency, male, for his hit single “I Left My Coronary heart in San Francisco.”

Bennett has gained 20 Grammy awards in whole, together with the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001. He final gained a Grammy in 2018, for “Tony Bennett Celebrates 90,” within the class of conventional pop vocal album. He has triumphed in the identical class 13 instances, together with in 1995, when his stay album “MTV Unplugged” gained Grammys for each conventional pop vocal efficiency and album of the 12 months.

Bennett was identified with Alzheimer’s illness in 2016. In 2021 he was profiled in a phase for “60 Minutes,” which forged mild on his last run of exhibits at New York’s Radio Metropolis Music Corridor final August. Attributable to his situation, he may reply questions solely with assist from his spouse, philanthropist Susan Crow.

“I believe he actually pushed by one thing,” Gaga instructed Anderson Cooper on “60 Minutes.” “He gave the world the present of realizing that issues can change, and you’ll nonetheless be magnificent.”