When Lady Gaga returned to her Jazz & Piano residency 15 months after her last performance at Dolby Live, there was one soul that could not be present in person: the late Tony Bennett, who passed away in July at age 96 after having recorded two albums with Gaga in a late-career highlight fit for a legend. Gaga paid tribute with a cover of “Fly Me to the Moon,” for which she momentarily went unplugged and let the power of her natural voice reach the rafters.
Gaga was picture perfect at the start of the show, with platinum hair complemented by makeup undoubtedly drawn from her Haus Labs line, which is making viral waves with latest product Triclone Skin Tech Concealer. The Oscar-winning, Grammy-collecting singer’s beauty products are imbued with a self-love/self-care attitude, as was a rendition of “Born This Way” dedicated to the trans community.
She also introduced a new arrangement of “Stupid Love,” bathed in pink light as she sat at the keyboard, from 2020 album Chromatica. The tour in support of that album ran through last September, making it nearly a year since she had performed live at all. Whether or not she returns for more Jazz & Piano after the final date of her current engagement remains to be seen, but she’ll likely be heard next contributing vocals to the next Rolling Stones album.
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