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tony bennett

DateThursday, January 4, 2007 at 06:33AM

His father was a grocer and his mother a seamstress. Born in 1926 in Astoria, Queens, New York City, he sang at the opening of the Triborough Bridge at age ten and dropped out of New York's High School of Industrial Art at age sixteen. Soon he was a singing waiter at several Queens Italian restaurants. And by 1950 he was a major cog in the Columbia Records hit machine. Today's great Italian is Anthony Benedetto (a.k.a. Tony Bennett).

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