In a new interview with Vulture, Tony Bennett has revealed that he will once again collaborate with Lady Gaga on an album featuring Cole Porter classics.
"It's going to be all Cole Porter songs," Bennett told the site. "He was the best writer of all of them in the Great American Songbook. Highly intelligent. We're going to have a lot of fun doing that."
The crooner went on to praise his 'Cheek to Cheek' partner, sharing, "Gaga is a gorgeous singer, and when she sings a great ballad, I get goose bumps. She helped me and I helped her by doing Cheek to Cheek. Through her telling her audience how much she likes me, all of them became fans of mine, all these young teenagers. On the other hand, by her singing these beautiful songs on the album, the audience I have, all of them said, 'God, I never knew she sang that wonderfully.' So we both helped one another. We get along great. She's got a lot of talent. I think someday she's going to be very big in films, which I'm not too interested in. I work live, to audiences, but I think she's going to surprise everybody and make some good films."Read the interview in full here.
Below, watch a clip from PBS's Great Performances featuring Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga:
In 2014, Tony Bennett released a collaborative album with Lady Gaga, CHEEK TO CHEEK featuring these two legendary artists performing jazz standards. The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard Album charts making Bennettthe oldest musical artist, at the age of 88, to have an album top the Billboard 200 and won the Grammy Award in the Best Traditional Pop Album category. Tony Bennett is a Kennedy Center Honoree, an NEA Jazz Master and a recipient of the United Nation's Humanitarian andCitizen of the World honors.
With worldwide record sales in the millions, and dozens of platinum and gold albums to his credit, Tony Bennett has a long list of achievements, spanning over 60 years, includes eighteen Grammy Awards, including the prestigious Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, making this artist a true international treasure. His signature tunes, such as "Steppin' Out With My Baby" and "I Left My Heart In San Francisco" form part of the fabric of American music culture. Often billed as the world's most boyish octogenarian, TONY BENNETT is a vital musical artist at the peak of his powers.
Bennett celebrated his 85th birthday in 2011 with the release of "Duets II" and made music history by making Tony the oldest artist to ever have a #1 CD on the Billboard album charts. "Duets II," followed up "TonyBennett Duets: An American Classic" CD, released in 2006. 2012 marked the 50th anniversary of the singer's signature song, "I Left My Heart in San Francisco." as well as the release of a new documentary film, THE ZEN OF BENNETT, created and conceived by Tony's son and manager Danny Bennett. Bennett also authored his fourth book, LIFE IS A GIFT, released in 2012 and entered the NY Times Best Seller list.
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