Tony Bennett.

Tony Bennett  is an American singer of popular music, standards, show tunes, and jazz.Anthony Benedetto was born in Astoria, Queens, New York City, the son of Ann (née Suraci) and John Benedetto. His father was a grocer who had emigrated from Podàrgoni, a rural eastern district of the southern Italian city of Reggio Calabria, and his mother was a seamstress. With two other children, and a father who was ailing and unable to work, the siblings with older brother John Jr., and younger sister Mary grew up in poverty. John Benedetto Sr. died when Anthony was 10 years old. Regarding his choices in music, Bennett reiterated his artistic stance in a 2010 interview:
"I'm not staying contemporary for the big record companies, I don't follow the latest fashions. I never sing a song that's badly written. In the 1920s and '30s, there was a renaissance in music that was the equivalent of the artistic Renaissance. Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer and others just created the best songs that had ever been written. These are classics, and finally they're not being treated as light entertainment. This is classical music.
Bennett is going to release Duets II as a follow-up to his first collaboration album Duets: An American Classic on September 20, 2011. The album will be released in conjunction with Bennett's 85th birthday.
On September 10, 2011, Tony Bennett appeared on HSN to pre-sell his Duets II.