Frank Sinatra

Birth name: Francis Albert Sinatra
Also known as: Ol' Blue Eyes, The Chairman of the Board, The Voice
Born: 12.12.1915 Died: 14.5.1998 (aged 82)
Years active: 1935 – 1995
Origin: Hoboken, New Jersey, U.S.A.

Francis Albert Sinatra was an American jazz-oriented popular singer and Academy Award-winning actor.
Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo
artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers".
His professional career had stalled by the 1950s, but it was reborn in 1954 after he won the Academy
Award for Best Supporting Actor. He signed with Capitol Records and released several critically
lauded albums (such as In the Wee Small Hours, Songs for Swingin' Lovers, Come Fly with Me,
Only the Lonely and Nice 'n' Easy). Sinatra left Capitol to found his own record label,
Reprise Records (finding success with albums such as Ring-A-Ding-Ding, Sinatra at the Sands and
Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim), toured internationally, and fraternized with the
Rat Pack and President John F. Kennedy in the early 1960s. Sinatra turned fifty in 1965, recorded
the retrospective September of My Years, and scored hits with "Strangers in the Night" and "My Way".
Sinatra attempted to weather the changing tastes in popular music, but with dwindling album sales
and after appearing in several poorly received films, he retired in 1971. Coming out of retirement in 1973,
he recorded several albums, scoring a hit with "(Theme From) New York, New York" in 1980,
and toured both within the United States and internationally until a few years before his death in 1998.

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