Cheek to Cheek is the first collaborative album by American singers Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga, released on September 19, 2014, by Columbia and Interscope Records. It is Bennett's fifty-eighth studio album, and Gaga's fourth. The two first met at the Robin Hood Foundation gala in New York City in 2011, and later recorded a rendition of "The Lady Is a Tramp" together, after which they began discussing plans of working on a jazz project. Cheek to Cheek consists of jazz standards by popular composers such as George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, and Irving Berlin. It was inspired by Bennett and Gaga's desire to introduce the songs to a younger generation, since they believed these tracks have a universal appeal.
Gaga and Bennett performing at the Grand-Place of Brussels in Belgium
Bennett and Gaga performing on the Cheek to Cheek Tour at London's Royal Albert Hall
Gaga and Bennett performing "But Beautiful" on the Cheek to Cheek Tour
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Anthony Dominick Benedetto, known professionally as Tony Bennett, was an American jazz and traditional pop singer. He received many accolades, including 20 Grammy Awards, a Lifetime Achievement Award, and two Primetime Emmy Awards. Bennett was named an NEA Jazz Master and a Kennedy Center Honoree and founded the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Astoria, Queens, New York. He sold more than 50 million records worldwide and earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Bennett in the 1960s
Bennett (right) with Chicago columnist and talk show host Irv Kupcinet, during the 1950s
Bennett (right) with composer Harold Arlen, rehearsing for the television program The Twentieth Century in 1964
Bennett performing in 1966
