Antonia Bennett

Singer

Birthday April 7, 1974

Birth Sign Aries

Birthplace Los Angeles, U.S.

Age 49 years old

Nationality United States

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1974

Antonia Bennett (née Benedetto; born April 7, 1974) is an American singer of adult alternative music, standards, and jazz.

She is the daughter of singer Tony Bennett and actress Sandra Grant.

Bennett trained as an actor at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York.

She then became an alumna of the Berklee College of Music in Boston.

2000

Beginning in the mid-2000s, she began to appear as an opening act or guest at her father's shows.

2002

In 2002, The New York Times' Stephen Holden compared Bennett's voice to that of Billie Holiday, Rickie Lee Jones, and Betty Boop.

2010

A JazzTimes profile from 2010 said that her voice does not resemble her father's and instead compared her to Jane Monheit and Nellie McKay.

It followed the release of EP in 2010 called Natural and a digital-only album in 2012.

All three records were produced by songwriter, Holly Knight.

2013

In 2013 she was married to Ronen Helmann, an Israeli; around the same time, she converted to Judaism.

2014

Bennett's debut album Embrace Me, a treatment of standards from the Great American Songbook, was released on Perseverance Records in 2014.