Francis Albert Sinatra (
December 12,
1915 –
May 14,
1998) was an
Italian 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", and toured both within the United States and internationally until a few years before his death in 1998.
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