Antonia Bennett was born on April 7, 1974 in Beverly Hills, California,
to legendary singer
Tony Bennett
and
Sandra Grant. Since the age of
four, Antonia Bennett has been gracing the stage and serenading
audiences internationally alongside her father,
Tony Bennett. In fact, some of
those early performances were with the legendary American jazz icon
Count Basie.
Having spent most of her life in Los Angeles and New York City and
coming from a show business family, Antonia Bennett was surrounded by
and received praise from such greats as
Frank Sinatra,
Dean Martin,
Gene Kelly,
Rosemary Clooney,
Les Paul and
Ella Fitzgerald, so it was inevitable
that she would be infected with a passion for the arts.
She later trained and performed at the
Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, where she
was seen in several stage productions.
A recipient of the David Award presented by the "Italo-American
National Union" (the oldest Italian-American fraternal organization in
America), Antonia is an alumnus of the esteemed Berklee College of
Music in Boston. Her experience and timeless sound make her a presence
that captures audiences wherever she performs.
Antonia Bennett has performed in opera houses, casinos, jazz clubs and
amphitheaters worldwide. Her timeless qualities are reminiscent of the
great female jazz vocalists of the twentieth century.
According to The New York Times, the truly beautiful voice of Antonia
Bennett "conjures echoes of
Billie Holiday and
Rickie Lee Jones, with a hint of Betty
Boop".