Tony Bennett - the great interpreter of the American songbook
Born in August 1926, Anthony Dominick Benedetto grew up in poverty in the Queens district of New York.
"The legend in my family," he said, "was that [my father] used to stand at the top of a mountain and the whole valley would hear him sing. That is the reason I'm singing." He also spent hours painting and drawing. At the age of 12, a local teacher spotted him creating a giant mural in chalk on the pavement outside Bennett's housing project - and took him under his wing.He helped Tony win a place at the prestigious New York School of Industrial Art, where he studied artistic and musical technique. But Bennett was eventually forced to drop out, in order to contribute to the family income.
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