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Tony Bennett an American singer of popular music raised in New York City bennett began singing at an early age he fought in the final stages of world War II as an infantryman with the U S army in the European theatre afterwards he developed his singing technique sigyed with columbia records and had his first number one popular song with because of You several top hits such as rags to riches followed early bennett then further refined his approach to encompass jazz singing.


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 grew up in poverty John benedetto died when Anthony was 10 years old.



Benedetto and his company saw bitter fighting in cold winter conditions often hunkering down in foxholes they crossed the rhine and entered Germany engaging in dangerous house to house town after-town fighting to clean out german soldiers during his time in combat benedetto narrowly escaped death several times the experience made him a patriot and also a pacifist he would later write anybody who thinks that war is romantic obviously hasn't gone through one.