Tony Bennett

Tony Bennett is an American singer of popular music, standards, show tunes, and jazz. He has released fifty-four studio albums, nine live albums, thirty compilation albums, three video albums, one extended play and eighty singles.

His first number one song was "Because of You" in 1951. His other top hits from the 1950s include "Rags to Riches" and albums The Beat of My Heart and Basie Swings, Bennett Sings. In 1962, Bennett recorded "I Left My Heart in San Francisco".

The best selling albums in the US include I Left My Heart in San Francisco, MTV Unplugged: Tony Bennett, Duets: An American Classic and Duets II, all of which were certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. Eight other albums of his have gone gold in the US, including several compilations. His single "Body and Soul" hit number eighty-seven on the US Billboard Hot 100 in 2010, his first single to hit the chart in over three decades.

He remains a popular and critically praised recording artist and concert performer in the 2010s. Bennett has won 17 Grammy Awards (including a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001). He has sold over 50 million records worldwide.