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Born: December 12, 1915 City and Country of Origin: Hoboken, New Jersey Music Training: Awards: 1959 Grammy Awards for Album of the Year and for vocal performance, "Come Dance With Me!;" 1960 Grammy for Record of the Year "The Second Time Around;" 1965 Grammy Awards Best Ablum "September of My Years," best vocal performance for "It Was a Very Good Year;" 1966 Grammy for Album of the Year "A Man and His Music" 1966 Grammy for Record of the Year and best vocal performance "Strangers in the Night;" 1995 Grammy Award for Traditional Pop Performance "Duets II" Top Recordings: "Night and Day," "Mam'selle," "Young-at-Heart," "The Tender Trap," "All the Way," "Witchcraft," "It Was a Very Good Year," "Strangers in the Night" Frank Sinatra Biography: Frank Sinatra was the only child of an Italian immigrant couple living in Hoboken, New Jersey. His parents hoped that he would become an engineer, but he was more interested in sports. During after school hours he worked for a newspaper where he rose through the ranks from copy boy to sports reporter often covering his own events. His boyhood idol was Bing Crosby who he tried to emulate. After winning the Major Bowes Amateur Hour, in 1938, he took a position as headwaiter and MC at a New Jersey club called The Rustic Cabin. In February of 1939 he married his longtime girlfriend Nancy Barbato. His first big break came in June of 1939 when former Benny Goodman trumpeter Harry James heard Sinatra sing at the Rustic Cabin and signed him to a contract to sing with his new band. This arrangment would last only 6 months as Tommy Dorsey would hire him away from James for his own Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. It was here that Sinatra became a star turning out hit records and starting his movie career. In 1943 he struck out on his own and landed as emcee on The Lucky Strike Hit Parade. He recorded numerous hits for Columbia Records between 1943 and 1952 before signing with Capitol Records in 1953. In 1960 he founded Reprise Records. He became the first teen idol of the modern media era playing to sold out concerts of screaming young teenage girls. In 1947 he recorded a whopping 72 titles. Unfortunately, it was that very same year that allegations of ties to the mob and allegiance to the communist party began to surface. The year 1949 would prove to be the worst year of his career when the Committee on Un-American Activities claimed that he had links to both the mafia and the communist party. Later in the year his afair with Ava Gardner was exposed and his wife Nancy left him. In 1950 he auditioned for and got the role of Angelo Maggio in the movie From Here to Eternity. To secure the part he agreed to work for only a tenth of his usual salary. The part earned him an Academy Award. Capitol Records signed him to a new record deal and he landed roles in Guys and Dolls and The Man With A Golden Arm. |
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