This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
And Finally
Bennett to Stewart: “You sing like a girl”
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 30 June 2010
So, what does legendary crooner Tony Bennett make of Rod Stewart’s recent efforts to cover some of the classic songs of American film, theatre and popular culture through his ‘Great American Songbook’ albums? Well, let’s see.
“It’s not as good as Nat Cole or Frank Sinatra”, Tony muses. “He has a kind of a female voice. It’s not definitive performances. The game is really how can you own a performance of a song? And that’s the game of communicating as a performer – to own that song that you’re doing”.
