The Grammy Award-winning singer recently set a Guinness World Record for being the oldest person to release an album of new material.
“Love for Sale”, a collaboration with Lady Gaga, was released on October 1, and at the time, Bennett was 95 years old and 60 days old, according to Guinness.
Gaga, 35, said that despite the 60-year age gap, she continues to be inspired to perform with the senior crooner.
“I see a young boy every time I sing with him, and it just makes the experience of singing so free. It’s almost two souls singing together… and then at the same time, I I also take all his wisdom.. all his years of wisdom,” Gaga said in a . said in Video Announcing the record, released by Interscope Records.
The new album, which celebrates Cole Porter’s music, is not their first record together. In 2011, Bennett and Gaga recorded the song “The Lady Is a Tramp” and three years later they released a collaborative album called “Cheeks to Cheek”.
Of course, this is not the first record in his 70-year career. In fact, Guinness says he has four others:
- The oldest person to reach #1 on the US Albums Chart with a newly recorded album for “Cheek to Cheek”.
- Longest time among UK Top 20 albums: 39 years.
- The oldest person to enter the UK Top 20 Albums chart with “Duets: An American Classic” at the age of 80.
- The longest time between the release of an original recording and a re-recording of the same single by the same artist.
In fact, to quote another tune recorded by Bennett, the singer has been living the good life“
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