Background
She is a daughter of famed traditional popular singer Tony Bennett and actress Sandra Grant.
She is a daughter of famed traditional popular singer Tony Bennett and actress Sandra Grant.
Bennett originally trained as an actor at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New New York Bennett then became an alumnus of the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Beginning in the mid-2000s, she began to appear as an opening act, or as a guest during, her father"s shows.
In 2002, The New York Times" Stephen Holden compared Bennett"s voice to that of Billie Holiday, Rickie Lee Jones, and even Betty Boop.
A JazzTimes profile from 2010 said that her voice does not resemble that of her father"s, and instead compared her to Jane Monheit and Nellie McKay. Bennett"s debut album Embrace Maine, a treatment of standards from the Great American Songbook, was released on Perseverance Records in 2014.
lieutenant followed the release of European Parliament in 2010 called Natural and a digital-only album in 2012.