CNN entertainment|  Inside Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga’s friendship and musical partnership

Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett pose with their Grammys for their 2014 album “Cheek to Cheek.”

CNN — The years-long artistic partnership between Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga wasn’t an immediately obvious one.

Gaga was best known in the 2010s for pop hits like “Poker Face” and avant-garde experimentation on albums like “Artpop,” and Bennett, a singer who mostly stuck to standards, was in his 80s when the pair met.

And yet Bennett and Gaga became fast friends and close collaborators, which they remained until Bennett’s death at 96 on Friday. They recorded two albums together, 2014’s “Cheek to Cheek” and 2021’s “Love for Sale,” which both won Grammys for best traditional pop vocal album.  –read more–