Frank Sinatra
American singer and actor (1915-1998) · United States · Musicians · Died at 82 · also Italy
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Something wrong?The voice that made teenage girls faint in the 1940s and then refused to fade - Sinatra turned a swing-era croon into a five-decade empire of albums, Oscars, and a signature song about doing it his way.
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DuetsAlbum1987Hello Young LoversAlbum1985Presidential Medal of FreedomAward1981She Shot Me DownAlbum1980Johnny Mercer AwardAward
Trilogy: Past Present FutureAlbum, 19801979Grammy Trustees AwardAward1973
Ol' Blue Eyes Is BackAlbum1971Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille AwardAwardJean Hersholt Humanitarian AwardAwardSinatra & CompanyAlbum1969A Man Alone & Other Songs of Rod McKuenAlbum1968
CyclesAlbum1967Golden Globe Award for Best Original SongAward1966
Strangers in the NightAlbum1965“If I had as many love affairs as you've given me credit for, I would now be speaking to you from a jar at the Harvard Medical School.”In their wordsPop Chronicles: Show 22 - Smack Dab in the Middle on Route 66: A skinny dip in the easy listening mainstream. (Part 1), 1965.Grammy Lifetime Achievement AwardAward1960Star on Hollywood Walk of FameAward1959Grammy Award for Album of the YearAwardGrammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal PerformanceAward1958“In terms of my singing I have sometimes been asked how it all began, and it’s usually been a little hard for me to set the story down in any continuous narrative.”In their wordsJuly 1958In "The Way I Look at Race" by Sinatra (as told to Allan Morrison), in Ebony (July 1958)1954Academy Award for Best Supporting ActorAward1915Born12 December 1915Also in Deutsch
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Sinatra (far right) with the Hoboken Four on Major Bowes' Amateur Hour in 1935
Sinatra and Tommy Dorsey in Ship Ahoy (1942)
Sinatra performing with Harry James at the Hollywood Canteen in 1943
Sinatra with Alida Valli, c. 1940s
Sinatra (left) on the Armed Forces Radio in 1944 with Dinah Shore and Bing Crosby (right)
Young Sinatra fans listening to his records on a portable gramophone in Sydney, Australia, 1945.In their own words 10
, What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can.
I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living his life, and who had good friends, a fine family.
If I had as many love affairs as you've given me credit for, I would now be speaking to you from a jar at the Harvard Medical School.
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Born to Italian immigrants in Hoboken, New Jersey, on December 12, 1915, Francis Albert Sinatra joined Harry James's band as a vocalist in 1939, then signed with Columbia Records and became the idol of the "bobby soxers." After his 1946 debut album The Voice of Frank Sinatra, he moved to Capitol Records and cut a string of albums with arranger Nelson Riddle - In the Wee Small Hours in 1955, Songs for Swingin' Lovers! the next year - that redefined what a popular singer could do. He started his own label, Reprise Records, in 1960 and kept recording: collaborations with Count Basie, an Emmy-winning TV special in 1965, albums with Tom Jobim and Duke Ellington, then a 1971 retirement undone two years later and capped by "New York, New York" in 1980. On screen he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in From Here to Eternity in 1953, starred in The Man with the Golden Arm and The Manchurian Candidate, sang through musicals like Guys and Dolls and Pal Joey, and played detectives in Tony Rome and The Detective near the end. He died May 14, 1998, with 150 million records sold and a string of honors - Kennedy Center, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Congressional Gold Me
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