Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) 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 1953 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", and toured both within the
United States and internationally until a few years before his death in
1998.
Sinatra had three children; Nancy, Frank Jr., and Tina by his first wife
Nancy Barbato. He married three more times, to the actresses Ava Gardner and Mia
Farrow, and finally to Barbara Marx, to whom he remained married until his
death.
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