Tony Bennett, masterful stylist of American musical standards, dies at 96

Tony Bennett, the New York singer who made “I Left My Coronary heart in San Francisco” his signature quantity in a profession that spanned seven many years and was constructed on American fashionable songs, jazz requirements and present tunes, has died. He was 96.

His demise in New York on Friday was reported by the Related Press, which cited publicist Sylvia Weiner. He had suffered from Alzheimer’s illness.

Bennett vaulted to fame within the early Nineteen Fifties with a string of emotional hits, together with “The Boulevard of Damaged Goals,” “Due to You” and “Blue Velvet.”