Singer, actor. Biography [ edit] On December 21, 1903, he emigrated to New York City from Palermo, Sicily, on the SS Citt di Milano with his mother Rosa Saglimbeni Sinatra, his sisters Angela and Dorotea, and his brother. ABC agreed to allow Sinatra's Hobart Productions to keep 60% of the residuals, and bought stock in Sinatra's film production unit, Kent Productions, guaranteeing him $7million. [113] In 1944 Sinatra released "I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night" as a single and recorded his own version of Crosby's "White Christmas", and the following year he released "I Dream of You (More Than You Dream I Do)", "Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week)", "Dream", and "Nancy (with the Laughing Face)" as singles.
Who Inherited Frank Sinatra's Money? Net Worth Revealed - Celeb Answers No more than 8,000 copies of the record were sold,[60] and further records released with James through 1939, such as "All or Nothing at All", also had weak sales on their initial release. [344] At the end of the program Sinatra performed on stage for the last time to sing the final notes of the "Theme from New York, New York" with an ensemble. However, U.S. Army files reported that Sinatra was "not acceptable material from a psychiatric viewpoint", but his emotional instability was hidden to avoid "undue unpleasantness for both the selectee and the induction service". [222] The album was released in February 1961, the same month that Reprise Records released Ben Webster's The Warm Moods, Sammy Davis Jr.'s The Wham of Sam, Mavis River's Mavis and Joe E. Lewis's It is Now Post Time. and Harold Arlen's and Jerome Kern's "All The Things You Are". [496], Though Sinatra was critical of the Church on numerous occasions[497] and had a pantheistic, Einstein-like view of God in his earlier life,[498] he was inducted into the Catholic Sovereign Military Order of Malta in 1976,[499] and he turned to Catholicism for healing after his mother died in a plane crash in 1977. 4. 2 and was awarded Song of the Year. [533] Sinatra said he was not involved: "Any report that I fraternized with goons or racketeers is a vicious lie". [160] Journalist Burt Boyar observed, "Sinatra had had it. [548] In January 1961, Sinatra and Peter Lawford organized the Inaugural Gala in Washington, D.C., held on the evening before President Kennedy was sworn into office. [124], Sinatra's third album, Christmas Songs by Sinatra, was originally released in 1948 as a 78rpm album set,[125] and a 10" LP record was released two years later. One newspaper published the headline "Shame, Sinatra". [547], In the 1980 presidential election, Sinatra supported Ronald Reagan and donated $4million to Reagan's campaign. [543] He was outspoken against racism, particularly toward black people and Italians, from a young age. [130] Frankly Sentimental (1949) was panned by DownBeat, who commented that "for all his talent, it seldom comes to life". Barbara would be the grieving widow alone at her husband's side. Santopietro argues that Sinatra created his own world, which he was able to dominatehis career was centred around power, perfecting the ability to capture an audience. Dolly was reportedly arrested six or seven times and convicted twice for providing illegal abortions, Sinatra's loss of employment at the newspaper led to a life-long rift with Garrick. [312] It was the first studio album of Sinatra's to feature his touring pianist at the time, Vinnie Falcone, and was based on an idea by Sonny Burke. [88] His appeal to bobby soxers, as teenage girls of that time were called, revealed a whole new audience for popular music, which had been recorded mainly for adults up to that time. (Frank Sinatra) - : , , , ( ). [306] That year, as part of the Concert of the Americas, he performed in the Maracan Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which broke records for the "largest live paid audience ever recorded for a solo performer". [332] Sinatra maintained an active touring schedule in the early 1990s, performing 65 concerts in 1990, 73 in 1991 and 84 in 1992 in seventeen different countries. [462], Sinatra starred as a detective in Contract on Cherry Street (1977), cited as his "one starring role in a dramatic television film". [147][r], Sinatra's decline in popularity was evident at his concert appearances. During the show, he performed a duet with Presley, who sang Sinatra's 1957 hit "Witchcraft" with the host performing the 1956 Presley classic "Love Me Tender". [180][182] Swing Easy! [21] Dolly became influential in Hoboken and in local Democratic Party circles. [570][574], Sinatra's funeral was held at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Beverly Hills, California, on May 20, 1998, with 400 mourners in attendance and thousands of fans outside. Sinatra copied Dorsey's mannerisms and traits, becoming a demanding perfectionist like him, even adopting his hobby of toy trains. [138] Evans once said that whenever Sinatra suffered from a bad throat and loss of voice it was always due to emotional tension which "absolutely destroyed him". [337] His final public concerts were held in Fukuoka Dome in Japan on December 1920, 1994. [596] Other buildings named for Sinatra include the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Astoria, Queens, the Frank Sinatra International Student Center at Israel's Hebrew University in Jerusalem dedicated in 1978,[597] and the Frank Sinatra Hall at the USC School of Cinematic Arts in Los Angeles, California, dedicated in 2002. Riddle was ill at the time, and died that October, before they had a chance to record. [12][13][c] Sinatra weighed 13.5 pounds (6.1kg) at birth and had to be delivered with the aid of forceps, which caused severe scarring to his left cheek, neck, and ear, and perforated his eardrumremaining damaged for the rest of his life.
Anthony Martin Sinatra - Wikipedia Truman. Snelson, Tim (2012). [518], Sinatra was also known for his generosity,[519] particularly after his comeback. [120] The following year he released his second album, Songs by Sinatra, featuring songs of a similar mood and tempo such as Irving Berlin's "How Deep is the Ocean?" [y] In 1986, Sinatra collapsed on stage while performing in Atlantic City and was hospitalized for diverticulitis,[328] which left him looking frail. Dolly said of it, "My son is like me. [397] After several years of critical and commercial decline, his Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor win helped him regain his position as the top recording artist in the world. "[573] The night after Sinatra's death, the lights on the Empire State Building in New York City were turned blue, the lights at the Las Vegas Strip were dimmed in his honor, and the casinos stopped spinning for one minute. [139], In financial difficulty following his divorce and career decline, Sinatra was forced to borrow $200,000 from Columbia to pay his back taxes after MCA refused to front the money. He never liked to discuss a performance afterward because he knew his voice wasn't as good as it used to be. The book became a best-seller for "all the wrong reasons" and "the most eye-opening celebrity biography of our time", according to William Safire of The New York Times. Years ago, his voice was more even, and now it is divided into at least three interesting ranges: low, middle, and high. Sinatra obliged and chose to sing "My Kind of Town" for the rally held in Chicago on October 20, 1972. [365] She states that after each show, Sinatra would be "in a buoyant, electrically charged mood, a post-show high that would take him hours to come down from as he quietly relived every note of the performance he'd just given". [593][594][595] [134], Cementing the low of his career was the death of publicist George Evans from a heart attack in January 1950 at 48. [36] For his 15th birthday, his maternal uncle, Domenico, gave him a ukulele, and with the instrument, he performed at family gatherings. 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The jealousy exhibited by the group members often led to brawls in which they would beat up the small, skinny young Sinatra. [494] He often played golf with Venturi at the course in Palm Springs, where he lived,[495] and liked painting, reading, and building model railways. [28] [506] Barbara Sinatra wrote, "A big part of Frank's thrill was the sense of danger that he exuded, an underlying, ever-present tension only those closest to him knew could be defused with humor". Francis Albert Sinatra in MyHeritage family trees (Pekki-Parkkila Web Site) view all 26 Immediate Family Nancy Sinatra Barbato ex-wife Nancy Sinatra daughter Frank Sinatra, Jr. son Christina "Tina" Sinatra daughter Photo by MGM. Later, Sinatra helped Rich form his own band with a $25,000 loan and provided financial help to Rich during times of the drummer's serious illness. He recorded several albums and resumed performing at Caesars Palace, and released "New York, New York" in 1980. To prove her wrong when she belittled his choice of career Their friction first had shaped him; that, I think, had remained to the end and a litmus test of the grit in his bones. [415] By 1958, Sinatra was one of the ten biggest box office draws in the United States,[416] appearing with Dean Martin and Shirley MacLaine in Vincente Minnelli's Some Came Running and Kings Go Forth (both 1958) with Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood. [618][619], Sinatra was convinced that Johnny Fontane, a mob-associated singer in Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather (1969), was based on his life. [323] According to Kelley, the family detested her and the book, which took its toll on Sinatra's health. [363], Unlike many of his contemporaries, Sinatra insisted upon direct input regarding arrangements and tempos for his recordings. [598][599], The United States Postal Service issued a 42-cent postage stamp in honor of Sinatra in May 2008, commemorating the tenth anniversary of his death. [293], Sinatra continued to perform at Caesars Palace in the late 1970s, and was performing there in January 1977 when his mother Dolly died in a plane crash on the way to see him. [132] He gave a series of concerts in Israel in 1962, and donated his entire $50,000 fee for appearing in a cameo role in Cast a Giant Shadow (1966) to the Youth Center in Jerusalem. "Hoboken to unveil tribute to hometown legend Frank Sinatra Sunday", City of Hoboken to unveil new Sinatra statue on Frank Sinatra's birthday, Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim. [266], In 1970, Sinatra released Watertown, a critically acclaimed concept album, with music by Bob Gaudio (of the Four Seasons) and lyrics by Jake Holmes. [476] The couple formally announced their separation on October 29, 1953, through MGM. [248][w], Sinatra started 1967 with a series of recording sessions with Antnio Carlos Jobim. [535] Sinatra's gambling license was temporarily stripped by the Nevada Gaming Control Board in 1963 after Giancana was spotted on the premises. [553][554] Despite the snub, when he learned of Kennedy's assassination he reportedly sobbed in his bedroom for three days. [561] On November 1, 1972, he raised $6.5million in bond pledges for Israel,[279] and was given the Medallion of Valor for his efforts. [616] A musical tribute was aired on CBS television in December 2015 to mark Sinatra's centenary. By the mid 1940s, such was his understanding of music that after hearing an air check of some compositions by Alec Wilder which were for strings and woodwinds, he became the conductor at Columbia Records for six of Wilder's compositions: "Air for Oboe", "Air for English Horn", "Air for Flute", "Air for Bassoon", "Slow Dance" and "Theme and Variations". [325], In 1984, Sinatra worked with Quincy Jones for the first time in nearly two decades on the album, L.A. Is My Lady, which was well received critically. [151] At the Desert Inn in Las Vegas he performed to half-filled houses of wildcatters and ranchers. [460] When Sinatra came out of retirement in 1973, he released both an album and appeared in a TV special named Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back. He points everything he does from a sexual standpoint". [600], Various items of memorabilia from Sinatra's life and career, such as Frank Sinatra's awards, gold records, and various personal items are displayed at USC's Frank Sinatra Hall in Los Angeles and also at Wynn Resort's Sinatra restaurant in Las Vegas. His pianist and close friend Hank Sanicola persuaded him to stay with the group,[63] but in November 1939 he left James to replace Jack Leonard[k] as the lead singer of the Tommy Dorsey band. Stordahl recalled: "He just couldn't believe his ears. [61] Thanks to his vocal training, Sinatra could now sing two tones higher, and developed a repertoire which included songs such as "My Buddy", "Willow Weep for Me", "It's Funny to Everyone but Me", "Here Comes the Night", "On a Little Street in Singapore", "Ciribiribin", and "Every Day of My Life". [347] Critic Gene Lees, a lyricist and the author of the words to the Jobim melody "This Happy Madness", expressed amazement when he heard Sinatra's recording of it on Sinatra & Company (1971), considering him to have delivered the lyrics to perfection. [564] At the Sands in 1955, Sinatra went against policy by inviting Nat King Cole into the dining room,[565] and in 1961, after an incident where an African-American couple entered the lobby of the hotel and were blocked by the security guard, Sinatra and Davis forced the hotel management to begin hiring black waiters and busboys. In the open field, you might say, were some awfully good singers with the orchestras. The younger Frank Sinatra Jr. died unexpectedly of cardiac arrest while on tour in Daytona Beach, Florida, (March 16, 2016, age 72). "[322], Santopietro notes that Sinatra was a "lifelong sympathizer with Jewish causes". By 1946 he was performing on stage up to 45 times a week, singing up to 100 songs daily, and earning up to $93,000 a week. Nancy Sinatra notes that her father had a falling out with a bureaucrat in the country, who refused to admit Sinatra into his house. [240] One of the album's singles, "It Was a Very Good Year", won the Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Male. [441], After beginning on the Major Bowes Amateur Hour radio show with the Hoboken Four in 1935, and later WNEW and WAAT in Jersey City,[53] Sinatra became the star of radio shows of his own on NBC and CBS from the early 1940s to the mid-1950s. Frank. Join Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and their families for this joyful holiday special filmed in 1967. [493] In his spare time, he enjoyed listening to classical music and attended concerts when he could. Clemens, Samuel. [306] The two men had a major falling out, and later patched up their differences in January 1985 at a dinner organized for Ronald Reagan, when Sinatra asked Riddle to make another album with him. Kennedy. [107][108][109], Toward the end of the war, Sinatra entertained the troops during several successful overseas USO tours with comedian Phil Silvers. [210] He also released No One Cares in the same year, a collection of "brooding, lonely" torch songs, which critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine thought was "nearly as good as its predecessor Where Are You?, but lacked the "lush" arrangements of it and the "grandiose melancholy" of Only the Lonely. 1", "Sheeran hit first to remain a year in UK chart", "A Toast To 'My Way,' America's Anthem Of Self-Determination", "Caesars Palace Boss Arrested for Pulling Gun on Sinatra", "No Charges Will be Filed in Sinatra Gun Incident", "Retirement Isn't The Life For Francis Albert", "Denver-Sinatra Superb Contrast at Lake Tahoe", "Jerry Lewis telethon ends decades-long run, fundraising awareness for Muscular Dystrophy Association", "Trilogy: Past, Present & Future Awards", "Foolish Heart: The Lost Albums of Frank Sinatra | Newz Breaker", "AFI's 25 Greatest Movie Musicals of All Time", "Back on the High Road With a Busy Minstrel", "Frank Sinatra at the Golden Globe Awards", "The Screen in Review; Doris Day and Sinatra Star at Paramount", "New York Magazine Television Highlights", "The Billboard Eleventh Annual Disk Jockey Poll", Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, "American Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest Movies", "Nancy Barbato Sinatra, an Idol's First Wife and Lasting Confidante, Dies at 101", "Mia Farrow: Woody Allen's son Ronan may be Frank Sinatra's", "Mia Farrow and Eight of Her Children Speak Out on Their Lives, Frank Sinatra, and the Scandals They've Endured", "Nancy Sinatra Opens Up About Frank Sinatra, Mia Farrow & Son Ronan", "Frank Sinatra's February 1963 Playboy Magazine Interview", "3 Aug 1985, Page 41 The Sydney Morning Herald at Newspapers.com", "Sinatra, Press Agent Trade Blows, Few of Which Connect", Appraisal: 1976 Frank Sinatra Signed Letter to Mike Royko, "Frank Sinatra's Lake Tahoe casino shuts down", "Sixties Considered Decade of Stress in Movie World", "What's the connection between John F. Kennedy and Frank Sinatra", How Bobby Kennedy Started the War on Gangs, "Sinatra, snow storms, and a smashed-up helipad: the story behind John F Kennedy's star-studded inauguration", "New York Magazine Is Reagan Gala a Kennedy Snub? Buried - B-8, #151, Desert Memorial Park, Palm Springs, CA. [83][p] Upon leaving Dorsey, Sinatra persuaded Stordahl to come with him and become his personal arranger, offering him $650 a month, five times his salary from Dorsey. His mother, Dolly Sinatra (18961977), was a Democratic Party ward leader,[541] and after meeting President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944, he subsequently heavily campaigned for the Democrats in the 1944 presidential election. [542] According to Jo Carroll Silvers, in his younger years Sinatra had "ardent liberal" sympathies, and was "so concerned about poor people that he was always quoting Henry Wallace". [119] Such was Sinatra's command at Columbia that his love of conducting was indulged with the release of the set Frank Sinatra Conducts the Music of Alec Wilder, an offering unlikely to appeal to Sinatra's core fanbase at the time, which consisted of teenage girls. [237][238] The album September of My Years was released September 1965, and went on to win the Grammy Award for best album of the year. [227] The two became frequent performers together,[228] and appeared at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1965. Of the nine songs recorded during these sessions, seven charted on the best-selling list. [320], Sinatra was honored at 1983 Kennedy Center Honors, alongside Katherine Dunham, James Stewart, Elia Kazan, and Virgil Thomson. [388] He teamed up with Kelly for a third time in On the Town (also 1949), playing a sailor on leave in New York City. [191], His February 1956 recording sessions inaugurated the studios at the Capitol Records Building,[192] complete with a 56-piece symphonic orchestra. [52] The roadhouse was connected to the WNEW radio station in New York City, and he began performing with a group live during the Dance Parade show. She is Frank Sinatra's youngest child, whom he had with his first wife, Nancy Barbato Sinatra. [32] Excessively thin and small as a child and young man, Sinatra's skinny frame later became a staple of jokes during stage shows. [170] Sinatra's first album for Capitol, Songs for Young Lovers, was released on January 4, 1954, and included "A Foggy Day", "I Get a Kick Out of You", "My Funny Valentine", "Violets for Your Furs" and "They Can't Take That Away from Me",[172] songs which became staples of his later concerts. [375], Sinatra attempted to pursue an acting career in Hollywood in the early 1940s. [316], Santopietro stated that by the early 1980s, Sinatra's voice had "coarsened, losing much of its power and flexibility, but audiences didn't care". [43], Sinatra began singing professionally as a teenager, but even though he never learned to read music, he learned music by ear. [62], Sinatra became increasingly frustrated with the status of the Harry James band, feeling that he was not achieving the major success and acclaim he was looking for. Tina Sinatra. The two men never spoke again. [315] Also in 1981, Sinatra was embroiled in controversy when he worked a ten-day engagement for $2million in Sun City, in the internationally unrecognized Bophuthatswana, breaking a cultural boycott against apartheid-era South Africa. Sinatra was investigated by the FBI for his alleged relationship with the mafia. [586] George Roberts, a trombonist in Sinatra's band, remarked that Sinatra had a "charisma, or whatever it is about him, that no one else had". [27], Sinatra's illiterate father was a bantamweight boxer [28] who later worked for 24 years at the Hoboken Fire Department, working his way up to captain. [500], Sinatra was known for his immaculate sense of style. [268] He left Caesars Palace in September that year after an incident in which executive Sanford Waterman pulled a gun on him. ", Nelson Riddle noting the development of Sinatra's voice in 1955. [334] The album and its sequel, Duets II, released the following year,[335] would see Sinatra remake his classic recordings with popular contemporary performers, who added their vocals to a pre-recorded tape. [17] Sinatra was raised in the Catholic Church. [424] He had a leading role opposite Laurence Harvey in The Manchurian Candidate (1962), which he considered to be the role he was most excited about and the high point of his film career. [615] Alex Gibney directed a four-part biographical series on Sinatra, All or Nothing at All, for HBO in 2015. [324] He was forced to drop the case on September 19, 1984, with several leading newspapers expressing concerns about his views on censorship. Sinatra also appeared in musicals such as On the Town (1949), Guys and Dolls (1955), High Society (1956), and Pal Joey (1957), which won him another Golden Globe. [37] To improve his speech, he began taking elocution lessons for a dollar each from vocal coach John Quinlan, who was one of the first people to notice his impressive vocal range.
[520] In another instance, after an argument with manager Bobby Burns, rather than apologize, Sinatra bought him a brand new Cadillac. [531] The FBI kept him under surveillance for almost five decades beginning in the 1940s. [236], Throughout his professional career, Sinatra recorded more than 1,300 songs and participated in more than fifty films. Look at Me Now", "Dolores", "Everything Happens to Me", and "This Love of Mine" in 1941; "Just as Though You Were There", "Take Me", and "There Are Such Things" in 1942; and "It Started All Over Again", "In the Blue of Evening", and "It's Always You" in 1943. Columbia wanted new recordings of their growing star as quickly as possible, so Alec Wilder was hired as an arranger and conductor for several sessions with a vocal group called the Bobby Tucker Singers. She even carried out illegal abortions for free which made her famous as "Hatpin Dolly." Source: express.co.uk, Image: Wikimedia. [510] Barbara Sinatra stated that he would "snap at anyone for the slightest misdemeanor",[511] while Van Heusen said that when Sinatra got drunk it was "best to disappear". Behind the scenes, Sinatra was busy with a bustling family life on top of his career. [331], In 1990, Sinatra was awarded the second "Ella Award" by the Los Angeles-based Society of Singers, and performed for a final time with Ella Fitzgerald at the award ceremony.