Ozzy Osbourne, Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons and Richie Sambora are among the many rockers who’ve reacted on social media to the passing of Tony Bennett. The legendary singer died earlier immediately (Friday, July 21) at age 96, in line with his longtime publicist Sylvia Weiner.

In 2016, Bennett was identified with Alzheimer’s illness, the most typical type of age-related dementia.

He had reportedly been singing and enjoying piano within the days main as much as his demise.

With worldwide report gross sales within the thousands and thousands and dozens of platinum and gold albums to his credit score, Bennett was a musician who touched the hearts and souls of audiences along with his legendary vocals and charming stage presence. His lengthy record of achievements, spanning over 60 years, contains 19 Grammy Awards, together with the celebrated Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, making this artist a real worldwide treasure. His signature tunes, equivalent to “Steppin’ Out With My Child” and “I Left My Coronary heart In San Francisco” kind a part of the material of American music tradition.

Bennett‘s eighty fifth birthday in 2011 marked the discharge of “Duets II” and made music historical past by making Tony the oldest artist to ever have a No. 1 CD on the Billboard album charts. “Duets II” adopted up “Tony Bennett Duets: An American Traditional” CD, launched in 2006. 2012 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the singer’s signature tune “I Left My Coronary heart in San Francisco”, in addition to the discharge of a documentary movie, “The Zen Of Bennett”, created and conceived by Tony‘s son and supervisor Danny Bennett. Bennett additionally authored his fourth guide, “Life Is A Reward”, launched in 2012 and entered The New York Occasions Greatest Vendor record. In 2014, Bennett launched a collaborative album with Woman Gaga, “Cheek To Cheek”, that includes these two legendary artists performing jazz requirements. The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Album charts, making Bennett the oldest musical artist, on the age of 88, to have an album high the Billboard 200, and gained the Grammy Award within the Greatest Conventional Pop Album class. Tony Bennett is a Kennedy Heart honoree, an NEA Jazz Grasp, and a recipient of the United Nation’s Humanitarian and Citizen of the World honors. Bennett was additionally a proficient painter. He had exhibited his work in galleries all over the world, and three of his authentic work are a part of the everlasting assortment within the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C.

All through his profession, Tony Bennett put his coronary heart and time into supporting humanitarian considerations and joined with Dr. Martin Luther King within the historic Selma march in 1965. His many charitable works embody elevating thousands and thousands in direction of diabetes and lending his paintings to boost funds for the American Most cancers Society. In 2007, he was honored by the United Nations. Collectively along with his spouse Susan, Tony Bennett established the charitable group Exploring The Arts (ETA),to assist arts training in public excessive faculties. Tony based Frank Sinatra Faculty Of The Arts, a New York Metropolis public highschool in his hometown of Astoria, Queens.

He’s survived by his spouse, Susan Benedetto, his two sons, Danny and Dae Bennett, his daughters Johanna Bennett and Antonia Bennett and 9 grandchildren.