Dispite a 60 year gap Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett managed to form one of music’s unlikeliest pairs, launched a jazz album that lets the pop diva put aside her quirky image to sing sweet harmonies with the elderly crooner.
“Cheek to Cheek,” on sale on Tuesday after a launch concert in the ornate Renaissance setting of the Grand-Place in Brussels, features jazz standards by Cole Porter, Duke Ellington and others a distant world away from Lady Gaga’s 21st century.
“When I began writing music for the music industry, I became known as the quirky girl from downtown New York,” she told a news conference at the 15th-century city hall.
“So I tailored my music to be that way, to get noticed, to be able to travel more and play more shows,” said the 28-year-old artist known to many as much for startling costumes – like a robe made of meat – as for her innovative music and stage shows.
But swathed in blue velvet with a 2-metre (6-foot) train, Lady Gaga this week was more 1950s Hollywood star than queen of MTV in 2014 – although still easily young enough to be Bennett’s grand-daughter.
