![]() ![]() In 2014, at age 88, Bennett broke his own record as the oldest living performer with a No. He not only survived the rise of rock music but endured so long and so well that he gained new fans and collaborators, some young enough to be his grandchildren. Wolfe created a statue to honor Tony Bennett in San Francisco. He’s the singer who gets across what the composer has in mind, and probably a little more.” Sculptor Bruce Wolfe and his model, singer Tony Bennett, in Wolfe’s Piedmont studio. … I just like to make people feel good when I perform.”īennett was praised often by his peers, but never more meaningfully than by what Sinatra said in a 1965 Life magazine interview: “For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business. “I think people … are touched if they hear something that’s sincere and honest and maybe has a little sense of humor. “I enjoy entertaining the audience, making them forget their problems,” he told The Associated Press in 2006. If his singing and public life lacked the high drama of Sinatra’s, Bennett appealed with an easy, courtly manner and an uncommonly rich and durable voice - “A tenor who sings like a baritone,” he called himself - that made him a master of caressing a ballad or brightening an up-tempo number. Unlike his friend and mentor Sinatra, he would interpret a song rather than embody it. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)īennett didn’t tell his own story when performing he let the music speak instead - the Gershwins and Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and Jerome Kern. The last of the great saloon singers of the mid-20th century, Bennett often said his lifelong ambition was to create “a hit catalog rather than hit records.” He released more than 70 albums, bringing him 19 competitive Grammys - all but two after he reached his 60s - and enjoyed deep and lasting affection from fans and fellow artists. There was no specific cause, but Bennett had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2016. Publicist Sylvia Weiner confirmed Bennett’s death to The Associated Press, saying he died in his hometown of New York. He was 96, just two weeks short of his birthday. When it comes to comic, I can be a like a big dog scared a barking puppy sometimes.Tony Bennett, the eminent and timeless stylist whose devotion to classic American songs and knack for creating new standards such as “I Left My Heart In San Francisco” graced a decadeslong career that brought him admirers from Frank Sinatra to Lady Gaga, died Friday. It was getting over the intimidation of making it. It was all very carefully planned around the "that's neat" principle.Īs per usual, the most difficult part about this sketchbook wasn't making it. I felt that was as good a reason as any to go with an analogous color scheme with blue and green on either end, and to color her magic as such.Īs for the floating jewelry? I was trying various accessories, sketched those, thought "that was neat," and eventually thought having them change colors when she's doing stuff would also be neat. Blue spells weakening creatures, and even specifically shrinking them, are common, while Green spells that make creatures bigger are VERY common.īasically, she made me think of Blue-Green deck. Her color scheme wound up being inspired by Magic: The Gathering card colors, of all things. If not, she may still make future appearances in non-canon. We'll see if she winds up in the main story. I also wanted an excuse for the size change, and I liked the idea of Rhoda reaching for something, but I found myself not wanting Rhoda to be responsible.Ī POTENTIAL canon character. I had imagined this being a more dramatic difference than it was, and decided the sketchbook needed a step further while still including what was voted on as the middle step (it WAS voted on, after all). The voted upon sketchbook only called for Rhoda and Lucy to grow and shrink respectively, ending up the former height of the other. ![]() I also have a fondness for calling things nonsense. ![]() I'm pretty sure that's a more uncommon fondness, but I do. I have a fondness for characters just going about their business when transformation nonsense happens. EDIT - Some corrections to the background ![]()
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