Lady Gaga Celebrates Late Tony Bennett’s Birthday: ‘A Day for Smiling’

Lady Gaga misses her late friend Tony Bennett — so she’s making sure to take time to celebrate his legacy. “Happy Birthday Tony. August 3rd is Tony Bennett Day. A day for smiling. But I’ll be celebrating you a lot more than once a year,” Gaga, 37, wrote via onvia Instagram on Thursday, August 3, alongside two photos of her posing in a black gown in front of a hot dog truck in New York City. “ I’ll celebrate you every time I’m on stage singing jazz music, every time I’m with your family, every time I walk down the streets of New York I’ll look around and remember all you did for this city and the whole world. .” Bennett — who would have been 97 on Thursday — died on July 21 after a years-long battle with Alzheimer’s. “Tony left us today, but he was still singing the other day at his piano and his last song was, ‘Because of You,’ his first #1 hit,” Bennett’s team wrote via Instagram at the time. “Tony, because of you we have your songs in our heart forever.” Tony