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Tony Bennett left the world as he came into it, as Anthony Benedetto, not the world-renowned singer, painter and philanthropist but more an everyman in a modest place, with his

You could not live a more full life — or a more Queens life — than that lived by Tony Bennett.Born Anthony Dominick Benedetto on Aug. 3, 1926, young Tony

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.

Dominick Reuters/AFP via GettyEveryone loved Tony Bennett for the same reason he loved Louis Armstrong: “The minute you heard him, just the first two bars, everyone started smiling. He made everybody smile."There was a contagious joy in his voice, and a kind of enviable contentment, things they don’t teach in music school. He had all the things they do teach too, the phrasing and pitch and timing, but he never flaunted those skills. Listening to him sing, you might not think, what a great artist

Whether he went solo or shared a spotlight with singers half his age, the indefatigable and self-effacing singer always put the song first.