
Though he was diagnosed in 2016, Bennett’s family only publicly shared the news in February 2021.Īs footage of the pair dancing, singing and laughing together plays in the trailer, Bennett has nothing but kind words to say about Gaga.

The pair went on to record the album between 20, when Bennett was privately dealing with his Alzheimer’s.

It is something that should be coveted so sacredly forever.” “I really want young kids to listen to jazz music, because it’s important,” Gaga says of her reason for making the album. “It is not something that should be left behind. In the trailer, Gaga reveals that the album was Bennett’s idea, one that he shared with her a day after Cheek to Cheek‘s debut, and she quickly jumped at the opportunity to work with him again.

On Tuesday, the singers released a trailer for their Cole Porter tribute album, Love For Sale, which is a follow-up to their 2014 album, Cheek to Cheek. However, they still performed a few new songs together because his "short-term memory was still there," she said.Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett are teaming up one last time. They also performed Porter's "Anything Goes" from Cheek to Cheek at Radio City Music Hall, because it was easier for him to perform songs "he knew with me a little bit before his Alzheimer's set on," Gaga explained to Colbert. That album became Love for Sale, which was released on Sept.
Seeing Bennett in the early stages of Alzheimer's reminded her about a promise she made with him to make a whole album of Cole Porter songs after their 2014 album Cheek to Cheek reached the top of the charts. "His commitment to civil rights, and to humanity, is something that he has taught me from a young age to take with me in all that I do. Martin Luther King Jr., he used to sneak Duke Ellington into the back of hotels to play jazz music all night long," the House of Gucci star told Colbert. "He is a remarkable human being, he served our country, he also marched with Dr.
