Lady Gaga is “stunned and shocked and beyond grateful” about her six Grammy nominations.
The singer is up for prizes including Best Pop Duo/Group Performance and Best Album for her second Tony Bennett collaboration ‘Love For Sale’ – and she couldn’t wait to tell him of their success.
“Thank you so much to the @RecordingAcademy for these 6 nominations for Love For Sale,” she beams. “I am stunned and shocked and beyond grateful. I don’t know what to say. I just keep crying and am utterly speechless.
“This means so much to me, @itstonybennett, the Bennetts, my family, jazz music, and the great Cole Porter, who wrote all these timeless classics. I’ll never forget today and congratulating Tony on his 6 nominations…
“He could track every word I was saying and understood the world was celebrating him and celebrating jazz – a genre that embodies the joy, abundance and imagination of Black music throughout history.
“Thank you to all the Grammy voters for recognizing me and Tony’s dedication to jazz music and for also recognizing it in major categories where this music is often not nominated.”
Gaga adds: “This album happened because it was Tony’s idea and I made him a promise that we would make it and we did.
“At 95 years old, he has more nominations than ever, I’m so honored to be his companion in music and his friend… Believe in love and partnership, even with 60 years between us, and Alzheimer’s, there is nothing like the magic of music.
“I love you Tony, and the world loves you too. How could they not?”
