(ANSA) - NEW YORK, AUG 16 - Tony Bennett sang in public for the last time: the two recent concerts with LadyGaga at Radio City Music Hall were his swan song.
The family of the 95-year-old singer, the last survivor of a generation of "crooners" like Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, are afraid of accidents on stage.
"The music is still all within him, but we don't want him to fall on stage or any other tragedy," said son Danny announcing the end of a career spanning 70 years.
Canceling the dates of the concerts still scheduled - latournee, postponed last year for Covid, should have left in September from Mashantucket, Connecticut, with subsequent dates in the state of New York, Maryland, Oklahoma and Canada - was "a decision. difficult, "said DannyBennett who for the past 40 years has been the manager of the pad and has helped transform the elderly lounge singer into a legendary name for the MTV generation. Tony suffers from Alzheimer's, as he himself revealed last year to the magazine of the AARP, the association of pensioners of America. "These are the doctor's orders", added the son: "We are not worried that he is unable to sing, but his physical state, human nature worries us. He is 95 years old.
He gets tired of traveling. "
But if concerts like those of Radio City are therefore something of the past, the singer of "I Left My Heart in San Francisco", winner of 19 Grammys including a lifetime achievement and two Emmys, still has something to give to his fans: on October 1st "Love For Sale," his second album of duets with LadyGaga on the songs of Cole Porter, anticipated by a first taste: the video "I Get a Kick Out of You" in which the emotions of Gaga, who for some time knew of the disease, are clearly visible in the registration. (HANDLE).
