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Francis Albert Sinatra (; December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer, actor, and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century. He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 150 million records worldwide. Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, to Italian immigrants, Sinatra began his musical career in the swing era with bandleaders Harry James and Tommy Dorsey. Sinatra found success as a solo artist after he signed with Columbia Records in 1943, becoming the idol of the "bobby soxers". He released his debut album, The Voice of Frank Sinatra, in 1946. Sinatra's professional career had stalled by the early 1950s, and he turned to Las Vegas, where he became one of its best known residency performers as part of the Rat Pack. His career was reborn in 1953 with the success of From Here to Eternity, with his performance subsequently winning an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. Sinatra released several critically lauded albums, including In the Wee Small Hours (1955), Songs for Swingin' Lovers! (1956), Come Fly with Me (1958), Only the Lonely (1958) and Nice 'n' Easy (1960).
Sinatra left Capitol in 1960 to start his own record label, Reprise Records, and released a string of successful albums. In 1965, he recorded the retrospective September of My Years and starred in the Emmy-winning television special Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music. After releasing Sinatra at the Sands, recorded at the Sands Hotel and Casino in Vegas with frequent collaborator Count Basie in early 1966, the following year he recorded one of his most famous collaborations with Tom Jobim, the album Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim. It was followed by 1968's Francis A. & Edward K. with Duke Ellington. Sinatra retired for the first time in 1971, but came out of retirement two years later and recorded several albums and resumed performing at Caesars Palace, and reached success in 1980 with "New York, New York". Using his Las Vegas shows as a home base, he toured both within the United States and internationally until shortly before his death in 1998.
Sinatra forged a highly successful career as a film actor. After winning an Academy Award for From Here to Eternity, he starred in The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), and received critical acclaim for his performance in The Manchurian Candidate (1962). He appeared in various musicals such as On the Town (1949), Guys and Dolls (1955), High Society (1956), and Pal Joey (1957), winning another Golden Globe for the latter. Toward the end of his career, he became associated with playing detectives, including the title character in Tony Rome (1967). Sinatra would later receive the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1971. On television, The Frank Sinatra Show began on ABC in 1950, and he continued to make appearances on television throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Sinatra was also heavily involved with politics from the mid-1940s, and actively campaigned for presidents such as Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. Despite his political connections, the FBI investigated Sinatra and his alleged relationship with the Mafia.
While Sinatra never learned how to read music, he had an impressive understanding of it, and he worked very hard from a young age to improve his abilities in all aspects of music. A perfectionist, renowned for his dress sense and performing presence, he always insisted on recording live with his band. His bright blue eyes earned him the popular nickname "Ol' Blue Eyes". Sinatra led a colorful personal life, and was often involved in turbulent affairs with women, such as with his second wife Ava Gardner. He went on to marry Mia Farrow in 1966 and Barbara Marx in 1976. Sinatra had several violent confrontations, usually with journalists he felt had crossed him, or work bosses with whom he had disagreements. He was honored at the Kennedy Center Honors in 1983, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Ronald Reagan in 1985, and the Congressional Gold Medal in 1997. Sinatra was also the recipient of eleven Grammy Awards, including the Grammy Trustees Award, Grammy Legend Award and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. After his death, American music critic Robert Christgau called him "the greatest singer of the 20th century", and he continues to be seen as an iconic figure.
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Albums
Under the Mistletoe
Frank Sinatra
I'll Be Around
They All Laughed Single
For My Dad Single
The Masters
Trilogy
Everybody Ought to Be in Love Single
Watertown
Hoy Pienso Que es Domingo Single
My Way
Follow Me / All I Need Is the Girl Single
Somethin' Stupid / Give Her Love Single
Moonlight Sinatra
That’s Life / The September of My Years Single
You Make Me Feel So Young Single
A Man and His Music
My Kind of Town / I Like to Lead When I Dance Single
All Alone
Ev'rybody's Twistin' / Nothin' but the Best Single
Frank Sinatra Sings EP
I Love Frank Sinatra EP
Me and My Shadow Single
Night and Day EP
Sinatra & Strings EP
Sinatra and Swingin' Brass EP
Tina EP
Twist EP
Come Swing With Me!
Granada / The Curse of an Aching Heart Single
Granada: Sinatra Swings EP
Hit Parade EP
I Remember Tommy
Ring-a-Ding Ding!
Sinatra Swings
Swing Along With Me
Nice 'n' Easy
Nice ‘n’ Easy
Old MacDonald / You'll Always Be the One I Love Single
Come Dance With Me!
French Foreign Legion / Time After Time Single
High Hopes / All My Tomorrows Single
Come Fly With Me
Frank Sinatra Sings To Love & Be Loved Single
Love Is a Kick
Mr Success / Sleep Warm Single
All the Way / Chicago Single
Christmas Dreaming
Close to You
Witchcraft / Tell Her You Love Her Single
(Love Is) The Tender Trap / Weep They Will Single
Learnin' the Blues / If I Had Three Wishes Single
Love and Marriage / The Impatient Years Single
Swing Easy!
You, My Love / Someone to Watch Over Me Single
Young at Heart / Take a Chance Single
Frankly Sentimental
Songs by Sinatra
Embraceable You / She's Funny That Way Single
How Deep Is the Ocean? / That Old Black Magic Single
I Believe / Time After Time Single
I Concentrate on You / I'm Sorry I Made You Cry Single
Over the Rainbow / All the Things You Are Single
Five Minutes More / How Cute Can You Be? Single
Oh! What It Seemed to Be / Day by Day Single
Dream / There's No You Single
Nancy (With the Laughing Face) / The Cradle Song Single
Ol' Man River / Stormy Weather Single
Dolores / I Tried Single
From the Bottom of My Heart / Melancholy Mood Single
I've Got You Under My Skin Single
My Way / Cycles Single
Popular Songs
- Sam's Song
- Part 8: Jon Secada
- Part 10: Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gormet
- Part 9: Willy Nelson
- Part 11: Lena Horne
- Part 12: Frank Sinatra, Jr.
- Part 3: Tony Bennett
- Part 4: Bono
- Part 5: Aretha Franklin
- Part 6: Carly Simon
- Part 7: Natalie Cole
- Part 2: Gloria Estefan
- Part 1: Introduction
- Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out T
- They Can't Take That Away From
- Singin' In The Rain
- Birth Of The Blues
- Tea For Two
- It's All Up You
- S'Wonderful
- One Hundreds Years From Today
- Hair of Gold, Eyes of Blue
- Between the Devil and Deep Blue Sea
- I hear a rhapsody
- Poor you
- Take my love
- Deep Night
- Bim Bam Baby
- The One I Love Belongs
- Stormy Wheater