His publicist Sylvia Weiner confirmed his death in New York to the Associated Press, but no specific cause was given. Bennett had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2016.
As well as becoming one of the great saloon singers during his rise to fame in the 1950s, Bennett’s iconic voice and warm personality kept him in popular demand even into his later years. At the age of 88, in 2014, he became the oldest living performer to score a No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 withThe astonishing success and popularity of Bennett’s performances and recordings of numbers from the Great American Songbook endured throughout the 1960s as rock music swept across the country.
Bennett continued releasing music in the following decades, with his career in the 1990s returning to the kind of fame and praise he enjoyed in his early years. Hisshow, featuring appearances from the likes of Elvis Costello and k.d. lang, introduced him to a whole new generation of fans, and an album of the performance released in 1994 hit platinum status—as well as scooping him the Grammy for album of the year.
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