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Bennett performed the beloved ballad for decades.

Bennett performed the beloved ballad for decades.

Tony Bennett died Friday at the age of 96. The musician had a decades-long career that featured more than 70 albums and 19 Grammy Awards.

Tony Bennett, a singer whose melodic clarity, jazz-influenced phrasing, audience-embracing persona and warm, deceptively simple interpretations of musical standards helped spread the American songbook around the world and won him generations of fans, died Friday at his home in Manhattan, where he had lived for many decades. He was 96.

New York is mourning the legendary jazz singer Tony Bennet, who passed away Friday morning in New York City. He was two weeks shy of his 97th birthday.

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View CNN’s Fast Facts on the life of Grammy-winning singer Tony Bennett, famous for his signature song “I Left My Heart in San Francisco.”