Francis Albert Sinatra was an American singer, actor and producer. He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 150 million records worldwide. Sinatra found success as a solo artist after he signed with Columbia Records in 1943, becoming the idol of the “bobby soxers”
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Francis Albert Sinatra was an American singer, actor and producer. He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 150 million records worldwide. Born to Italian immigrants in Hoboken, New Jersey, 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. By the early 1950s his professional career had stalled 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. He released several critically lauded albums, including In the Wee Small Hours, Songs for Swingin’ Lovers!, Come Fly with Me, Only the Lonely and Nice ‘n’ Easy. Sinatra left Capitol in 1960 to start his own record label, Reprise Records, and released a string of successful albums. He retired for the first time in 1971, but came out of retirement two years later. 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. He was also heavily involved with politics from the mid-1940s, and actively campaigned for presidents such as Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry S.
Truman, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. He led a colorful personal life, and was often involved in turbulent affairs with women, such as with his second wife Ava Gardner. Sinatra had several violent confrontations, usually with journalists he felt had crossed him, or work bosses with whom he had disagreements. He later married Mia Farrow in 1966 and Barbara Marx in 1976. After his death, American music critic Robert Christgau called him “the greatest singer of the 20th century” He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Ronald Reagan in 1985 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 1997. He also received eleven Grammy Awards, including the Grammy Legend Award and the Grammy Gold Medal Award. He has been included in Time magazine’s compilation of the most influential people of the century’s 100 most influential. He died on December 12, 1998, in an upstairs tenement at 415 Monroe Street in New York City. He had a daughter, Nancy, with actress Dolly Garavino, and a son, Antonino Martino, with singer Nancy Sinatra’s daughter Nancy Garvino, Nancy’s daughter-in-law Nancy Garavina and Nancy’s son Tony Sinatra. He received the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1971 for his performance in The Man with the Golden Arm. He appeared in various musicals such as On the Town, Guys and Dolls, High Society and Pal Joey, and won another Golden Globe for the latter.
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