From presenting Finest Image on the Oscars to belting on the Grammys stage, it is simply one other week for Woman Gaga. For tonight’s (April 3) Grammy Awards, Gaga blasted down from Chromatica to offer the viewers an enormous band expertise, performing tracks from Love for Sale, the jazz album she recorded with music legend, Tony Bennett.
Whereas Bennett wasn’t on the awards ceremony in individual — he retired from the stage final yr because of his worsening Alzheimer’s situation — he recorded a video introduction to Gaga’s efficiency, blowing the pop star a kiss.
Then, Mom Monster took to the stage, buying and selling her standard Chromatica couture for a chic turquoise robe, to sing with an enormous band. Her efficiency was remodeled right into a touching love letter to Bennett with movies of the 2 of them recording within the studio taking part in behind her.
Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty PhotosGaga introduced the home down by singing two tracks, “Love for Sale” and “Do I Love You,” ending her quantity by sitting on the stage of the MGM Grand Backyard Area, trying into the digital camera, and saying “I like you, Tony. We miss you.”
Gaga and Bennett’s second collaboration, Love for Sale, earned six Grammy nominations this yr, together with Album of the Yr, Finest Conventional Pop Vocal Album, and File of the Yr. Bennett has earned 18 Grammys over the course of his profession, whereas Gaga has acquired 12. Their earlier duets album, Cheek to Cheek, received Finest Conventional Pop Vocal Album on the 2015 Grammy Awards.
“This album occurred as a result of it was Tony’s thought and I made him a promise that we might make it and we did. At 95 years previous, he has extra nominations than ever, I’m so honored to be his companion in music and his pal,” Gaga wrote on Instagram when the Grammy nominations have been introduced again in November. “Thanks to the general public for loving us, we certainly love one another, and also you. Imagine in love and partnership, even with 60 years between us, and Alzheimer’s, there may be nothing just like the magic of music. I like you Tony, and the world loves you too. How might they not?”
