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He was 96.</p><p>To quote the tle of his reer-revalizg 1986 album, Bent voted his nearly 70-year reer to <em>The Art of Excellence</em>. One unfortunate album asi (1970’s <em>Tony Bent Sgs the Great Hs of Today</em>), Bent refed to promise his mic by panrg to trends of the moment to appeal to younger dienc. “Jt bee dis is popular or rap, I was tght to jt be myself and not to imate what others are dog,” he told me a 2011 terview to mark his 85th birthday. “Never do an ferr song. I look for five versns of songs like [those sung by] Frank Satra or Nat Kg Cole. They me om an era of nothg but the bt qualy and creative micianship.”</p><p class="paywall">Th, the setlist for Bent’s Grammy-nomated 1998 children’s album, <em>The Playground</em>, clud such kid-iendly standards as “Swgg on a Star,” “AC-Cen-T-ChuAte the Posive” and “It’s Only a Paper Moon.”</p><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><p class="paywall">In 2006 and 2011, Bent rerd the Grammy-wng llectns, <em>Duets: An Amerin Classic</em> and <em>Duets II</em>, which buted at No. 1 on the <em>Billboard</em> charts, makg Bent, at 85, the olst artist to achieve this tone. His llaborators clud <strong>Bono</strong>, Aretha Frankl, <strong>Lady Gaga</strong>, <strong>Pl McCartney</strong>, <strong>Stg</strong>, <strong>Barbra Streisand</strong>, <strong>Carrie Unrwood</strong> and Amy Wehoe. This did not make Bent trendy; ma him timels. He topped himself 2014 when, at the age of 88, his llaboratn wh Lady Gaga, <em>Cheek to Cheek</em>, likewise buted at No. 1.</p><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad---ntent"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot---ntent" data-no-id="9geizk"></div></div><p class="paywall">Bent rerd more than 70 albums, not cludg pilatns. He is one of a few rerdg artists to have albums that have charted each of seven s. He was honored wh <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">18 Grammys</a>, cludg a Lifetime Achievement Award, and was nomated for 36. His 13 Grammys for Bt Tradnal Pop Vol Album are the most the tegory’s history. His most recent w was 2015 for <em>The Silver Lg: The Songs of Jerome Kern</em>, which earned Bt Tradnal Pop Vols honors. </p><div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--article-mid-ntent" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--article-mid-ntent nsumer-marketg-un__slot---ntent"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><p class="paywall">He performed for 11 Amerin prints and won two Emmy Awards for his televisn specials, <em>Tony Bent Live by Requt</em> (1996) and <em>Tony Bent: An Amerin Classic</em> (2006). He was a 2005 Kennedy Center Honors recipient and the 2006 Natnal Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Jazz Master honoree. He was the recipient of <em>Billboard</em> magaze 2016 Century Award, the magaze’s hight honor, and the 2017 Library of Congrs Gershw Prize, which is btowed on recipients “whose reer reflects lifetime achievement promotg song as a vehicle of mil exprsn and cultural unrstandg.”</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-1 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">“I don’t thk there’s anyone ever at Mr. Bent’s age that is still tourg, and sgg and soundg so amazg,” Gloria Estefan told <a href=" target="_blank">reporters</a> 2017, when Bent was 90, prr to tribute ncert honor of his Gershw Prize. “He gets up every day, happy to create and to do somethg new. He’s really someone to look up to.”</p><p class="paywall">Bent himself told the <a href=" target="_blank"><em>New York Tim</em></a> that year, “I still sist that I n get better as I go along.”</p><p class="paywall">Tony Bent was born Anthony Domick Benetto on Aug. 3, 1926 Astoria, Queens. His grocer father died when he was 10. 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Unr the G.I. Bill of Rights, he studied the highly-discipled bel nto style of sgg that is tradnally associated wh opera sgers, which he <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">creded</a> wh helpg to keep his sgg voice shape to his 90s. </p><p class="paywall">Bent performed clubs unr the stage name Joe Bari. An engagement at the Shangri-La, an upsle Astoria club, and rad appearanc followed. In 1949, Pearl Bailey gave him his big break when she ved him to jo her mil revue at the Village Inn, a Greenwich Village club. There, Bob Hope, who was then appearg at the Paramount Theatre, saw Bent and ved him to jo his show. It was Hope who ed the stage name Tony Bent. </p><p class="paywall">In 1950, Bent signed wh Columbia Rerds and 1951, he sred his first No. 1 h, “Bee of You.” Other hs followed, cludg “Stranger Paradise,” “Se” and “Rags to Rich,” which had proment placement <strong>Mart Srse</strong>’s <a href=" target="_blank"><em>Goodfellas</em></a>. Albums such as <em>The Beat of My Heart</em> and <em>Basie Swgs, Bent Sgs</em> anticipated his forays to jazz sgg.</p><p class="paywall">In 1962, Bent rerd, “Once Upon a Time,” which he believed would be a h sgle. But was the flip-si, <a href=" target="_blank"><em>I Left My Heart San Francis</em></a><em>,</em> that clicked. It won Bent his first Grammy and beme his signature song. When asked why this of all of his songs so ronated wh people, he ced s’ climactic lyric: “When I e home to you, San Francis/Your goln sun will she for me.” “That reprents the fulfillment of a dream,” he told me. “We’d all like someday to be succsful. ‘When I e home to you’ means that the dream me te.” </p><p class="paywall">Bent had other hs the early 1960s, cludg “The Shadow of Your Se,” “I Wanna Be Around” and “The Good Life” (whose tle he took for his 1994 memoir), as well as crilly-acclaimed albums. He powerfully lent his voice and prence to the Civil Rights Movement, marchg alongsi Mart Luther Kg durg the 1965 march om Selma to Montgomery.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-2 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">But the Brish Invasn, led by the Beatl 1964, and the rock and roll era signaled a turng of the pop culture ti. He and Columbia parted ways 1971 after the label wanted a follow-up to <em>Tony Bent Sgs the Hs of Today</em>, an album Bent spised.</p><p class="paywall">Profsnally and personally, the 1970s was a fallow for Bent. His first marriage end divorce. Bent -found his own rerd label, Improv Rerds and although the rerdgs were crilly acclaimed, they did not sell and the label was short-lived, puttg Bent eply bt to the IRS. He stggled wh dg addictn until a iend, who had prevly managed edian Lenny Bce, said that Bent had “sned agast his talent.” Bent to<strong>ld Chris Cuomo</strong> a 2011 terview on ABC-TV newsmagaze <em>20/20</em>, “That one sentence jt changed my life. It meant that I had to drop everythg I was dog. 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data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall"><strong>Danny Bent</strong>, a son om Bent’s first marriage, beme his personal manager and engeered his father’s eback and his return to Columbia. 1986’s <em>The Art of Excellence</em> was Bent’s first album to reach the pop charts 14 years. It began a spectacular strg of crilly-acclaimed and bt-sellg rerdgs that celebrated mil hero (among them <em>Bent/Berl</em>, <em>Perfectly Frank</em> and <em>Stepp’ Out</em>, featurg songs popularized by dancer Fred Astaire, <em>Bent Sgs Ellgton: Hot and Cool</em> and <em>Here’s to the Ladi</em>) .</p><p class="paywall">In 2014, <em>Cheek to Cheek</em>, a llectn of standards that paired Bent and Lady Gaga, buted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top 200 pop and rock chart. The subsequent PBS special was nomated for an Emmy. In his nth , Bent sold a reported 10 ln albums.</p><p class="paywall">Bent, to paraphrase the tle of his idol Frank Satra’s own signature song, did his way. When he appeared on <em>MTV Unplugged</em>, gut artists such as <strong>k.d. lang</strong> and <strong>Elvis Costello</strong> dueted on songs om Bent’s vast repertoire of standards, and not the other way around. He played timate clubs and the ft ncert halls rather than impersonal stadiums.</p><p class="paywall">It was a ttament to his cross-generatnal appeal that he appeared on <em>Amerin Idol</em>, voiced himself on <em>The Simpsons</em>, ma a self-pretg meo oppose a Bent-impersonatg <strong>Alec Baldw</strong> on <a href=" target="_blank"><em>Saturday Night Live</em></a> and guted on <em>The Howard Stern Show</em> and <em>Late Night wh David Letterman</em>. </p><p class="paywall">Danny Bent booked him wh alternative acts like the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Lemonheads. “He told me that he plor the notn of mographics,” Danny told <a href=" target="_blank"><em>The Chigo Tribune</em></a> 1994. “So I knew was a matter of turng the market around. Instead of ftg the artist to the marketg, I f the marketg to the artist.”</p><p class="paywall">Bent was a champn of the arts. He -found Explorg the Arts (ETA) wh his third wife, <strong>San Crow</strong>, a Tony Bent fan club member who met Bent backstage when she was 19. ETA supports public school arts tn. One of ETA’s first iativ was the Frank Satra School of the Arts, a public school which opened New York Cy 2009. </p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-3 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">Bent was also a regnized pater, whose works are the Smhsonian llectns as well as the Butler Instute Youngstown, OH. The 2007 book, <em>Tony Bent the Stud: A Life of Art and Mic</em>, featur 200 of his works. He took up sculptg at the age of 85. </p><p class="paywall">In addn to his memoir, Bent also wrote two llectns of anecdot and life lsons, <em>Life is a Gift</em> 2012 and <em>Jt Gettg Started</em> 2016. But he was an Osr short of an EGOT. His actg reer began and end wh <em>The Osr</em>, a 1966 cril and box office flop now nsired somethg of a mp classic, and which hand Bent such crgeworthy dialogue as, “Like a junkie shootg pure quicksilver to his ves, Frankie got turned on by the wilst nartic known to man: succs!”</p><p class="paywall">Bent ntued to rerd as well as tour after he was diagnosed 2016 wh Alzheimer’s. <strong>Antonia Bent</strong>, his dghter om his send marriage (that unn dissolved 2007), opened his shows. A send llectn of duets he rerd wh Lady Gaga between 2018-2020 was schled for release the sprg of this year. 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EVERYONE IS GAY FOR BRIDGET
EVERYONE IS GAYA GREAT BIG WORLDTRACK 7 ON IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE? PRODUCED BYCHRIS KUFFNERA SONG RELEASED ON YOUTUBE 2013 BY A GREAT BIG WORLD, LATER RELEASED AS THE 7TH TRACK OF THEIR 2014 ALBUM IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE?. “EVERYONE IS GAY" IS A GAY RIGHTS… READ MORE JUN. 30, 20131 VIEWER26.3K VIEWS23 CONTRIBUTORSEVERYONE IS GAY LYRICS[VERSE 1]IF YOU'RE GAY THEN YOU'RE GAYDON'T PRETEND THAT YOU'RE STRAIGHTYOU N BE WHO YOU ARE ANY DAY OF THE WEEKYOU ARE UNLIKE THE OTHERSSO STRONG AND UNIQUEWE'RE ALL WH YOUIF YOU'RE STRAIGHT, WELL, THAT'S GREATYOU N HELP PROCREATEAND MAKE GAY LTLE BABIFOR THE WHOLE HUMAN RACEMAKE A WORLD WE N LIVE WHERE THE ONE WHO YOU LOVE'S NOT AN ISSUE[CHOS]'CSE WE'RE ALL SOMEWHERE THE MIDDLEWE'RE ALL JT LOOKG FOR LOVE TO CHANGE THE WORLDWHAT IF THE WORLD STOPS SPNG TOMORROW?WE N'T KEEP NNG AWAY OM WHO WE ARE[VERSE 2]IF YOU'RE GAY THEN YOU'RE GAYIF YOU'RE STRAIGHT, WELL, THAT'S GREAT!IF YOU FALL BETWEEN THAT'S THE BT WAY TO BEYOU'VE GOT SO MANY OPTNSEVERY FISH THE SEA WANTS TO KISS YOU(MUAH! AWW!)YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE[CHOS]'CSE WE'RE ALL SOMEWHERE THE MIDDLEAND WE'RE ALL JT LOOKG FOR LOVE TO CHANGE THE WORLDWHAT IF THE WORLD STOPS SPNG TOMORROW?WE N'T KEEP NNG AWAY OM WHO WE ARE[OUTRO]AND WE'RE ALL HERE TOGETHERWE'RE ONE STEP CLOSER TO BREAKG DOWN THE WALLSEVERYONE IS GAYHOORAY! (HOORAY)11EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT
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EVERYONE IS GAY FOR BRIDGET

Qutn 43 of The Impossible Quiz is the third of ne qutns thought by Rabid-Coot (Etogard), and 's a fill--the-blank qutn. It says "Bridget mak everyone...", mentng the character Bridget om the Guilty Gear seri. The possible choic are "Gay", "Straight", "Bi", and... * everyone is gay for bridget *

Everyone is Gay For Bridget.

Everyone / Everybody is Gay For Bridget is a term that was ed onle, after the character monly beg ed on onle fom and discsns for "trappg" an unknowg poster to thkg the character is female before revealg the character's te physil sex, monly leadg to people to have mixed feelgs after towards him, leadg to the term to be created to scribe the joke. The possible choic are "Gay", "Straight", "Bi", and "Tom Cise".

EVERYONE IS GAYA GREAT BIG WORLDTRACK 7 ON IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE? PRODUCED BYCHRIS KUFFNERA SONG RELEASED ON YOUTUBE 2013 BY A GREAT BIG WORLD, LATER RELEASED AS THE 7TH TRACK OF THEIR 2014 ALBUM IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE?. “EVERYONE IS GAY" IS A GAY RIGHTS… READ MORE JUN. 30, 20131 VIEWER26.3K VIEWS23 CONTRIBUTORSEVERYONE IS GAY LYRICS[VERSE 1]IF YOU'RE GAY THEN YOU'RE GAYDON'T PRETEND THAT YOU'RE STRAIGHTYOU N BE WHO YOU ARE ANY DAY OF THE WEEKYOU ARE UNLIKE THE OTHERSSO STRONG AND UNIQUEWE'RE ALL WH YOUIF YOU'RE STRAIGHT, WELL, THAT'S GREATYOU N HELP PROCREATEAND MAKE GAY LTLE BABIFOR THE WHOLE HUMAN RACEMAKE A WORLD WE N LIVE WHERE THE ONE WHO YOU LOVE'S NOT AN ISSUE[CHOS]'CSE WE'RE ALL SOMEWHERE THE MIDDLEWE'RE ALL JT LOOKG FOR LOVE TO CHANGE THE WORLDWHAT IF THE WORLD STOPS SPNG TOMORROW?WE N'T KEEP NNG AWAY OM WHO WE ARE[VERSE 2]IF YOU'RE GAY THEN YOU'RE GAYIF YOU'RE STRAIGHT, WELL, THAT'S GREAT!IF YOU FALL BETWEEN THAT'S THE BT WAY TO BEYOU'VE GOT SO MANY OPTNSEVERY FISH THE SEA WANTS TO KISS YOU(MUAH! AWW!)YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE[CHOS]'CSE WE'RE ALL SOMEWHERE THE MIDDLEAND WE'RE ALL JT LOOKG FOR LOVE TO CHANGE THE WORLDWHAT IF THE WORLD STOPS SPNG TOMORROW?WE N'T KEEP NNG AWAY OM WHO WE ARE[OUTRO]AND WE'RE ALL HERE TOGETHERWE'RE ONE STEP CLOSER TO BREAKG DOWN THE WALLSEVERYONE IS GAYHOORAY! (HOORAY)11EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT

Everyone is Gay Lyrics: If you're gay then you're gay / Don't pretend that you're straight / You n be who you are any day of the week / You are unlike the others / So strong and unique / We're all wh * everyone is gay for bridget *

" Explanatn Everyone is gay for Bridget. Explanatn Trap Explanatn Straight for Bridget Explanatn Still gay for Bridget Explanatn Not unlike how the BlazBlue L. Everyone is gay for bridget - 9GAG.

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EVERYONE IS GAY FOR BRIDGET

* everyone is gay for bridget *

Our sister-se, My Kid Is Gay, works to provi fai & tors of LGBTQIA kids much-need advice, rourc, and muny. Our book, This is a Book for Parents of Gay Kids, was published 2014! Now, I know that everyone’s gay for Bridget.

EVERYONE IS GAY FOR BRIDGET

Everyone is gay for Bridget * everyone is gay for bridget *

This, though, do not mean that Bridget is a homosexual.

That jt screams gay.

PEACHY KEENAN: EVERYONE IS GAY, N YOU BLAME THEM?

The way Bridget fights is totally gay.

#EVERYONEISGAYFORBRIDGET

” So really, jt accept the fact that you’re gay for Bridget – everyone is. [Verse 1]If you're gay then you're gayDon't pretend that you're straightYou n be who you are any day of the weekYou are unlike the othersSo strong and uniqueWe're all wh youIf you're straight, well, that's greatYou n help procreateAnd make gay ltle babiFor the whole human raceMake a world we n live Where the one who you love's not an issue[Chos]'Cse we're all somewhere the middleWe're all jt lookg for love to change the worldWhat if the world stops spng tomorrow? We n't keep nng away om who we are[Verse 2]If you're gay then you're gayIf you're straight, well, that's great!

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EVERYONE IS GAY FOR BRIDGET

EVERYONE IS GAY FOR BRIDGET

EVERYONE IS GAY FOR BRIDGET

PEACHY KEENAN: EVERYONE IS GAY, N YOU BLAME THEM?

#EVERYONEISGAYFORBRIDGET

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