Tony Bennett Sixty Years and 17 Grammys Later, the Master’S Career Is Still Going Strong
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2012 ISSUE MMUSICMAG.COM Q&A artin M uben R TONY BENNETT Sixty years and 17 Grammys later, the master’s career is still going strong AFTER RELEASING MORE THAN How were your guests selected? chance to study at the American Theatre 70 albums in six decades, Tony Bennett Danny worked with my record label to Wing and learned bel canto technique. I still continues to dazzle audiences worldwide. approach the artists, and I met most of them for use that technique to keep my voice in shape. The 86-year-old, 17-Grammy-winning the first time in the studio. I have known Marc crooner keeps a simple attitude when it Anthony and Gloria Estefan for many years, Recall a memorable moment onstage? comes to career consistency. “You learn so it was a treat to finally record with them. Several years ago I was at the Hollywood more from the errors than the things you Bowl singing the Kurt Weill song, “Lost in get right immediately,” he says. On his latest, How do you pick songs? the Stars.” In the middle of the song the Viva Duets, Bennett sings from his catalog If it’s a duet project, we pick a few songs audience exclaimed, “Ahhhh,” but I kept with leading Latin artists including Marc for the guest artists and they choose on singing. When I walked offstage, the Anthony, Franco De Vita, Gloria Estefan and the one they like best. If it’s a solo stagehands said, “Tony, did you see what Juan Luis Guerra. It’s his third duets project— project, it will sometimes depend on the happened?” I said, “No,” and they told and intimacy in the recording process was instrumentation involved.
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