Francis Albert Sinatra (Hoboken, 12 de dezembro de 1915 — Los Angeles, 14 de maio de 1998) foi um cantor e ator norte-americano, considerado uma das maiores vozes do século XX e com mais de 50 anos de carreira.
Iniciou a sua carreira durante a Swing Era e lançou centenas de canções imortalizadas na sua voz, como Killing Me Softly, Strangers in the Night, New York, New York, My Way, Fly Me to the Moon, entre outras.
Filho de dois imigrantes italianos, foi casado com Nancy Barbato e posteriormente com as atrizes Ava Gardner e Mia Farrow, e com a socialite Barbara Marx, com quem terminou os seus dias. Possui duas estrelas na Calçada da Fama, uma pelo o seu trabalho na música e outra pelo o seu trabalho na TV americana.
É considerado um dos maiores intérpretes da música na década de 50. Teve três filhos: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra Jr., e Tina Sinatra.
Sem nenhum treino formal, Sinatra desenvolveu um estilo altamente sofisticado. A sua habilidade em criar uma longa e fluente linha musical sem pausas para respiração, a sua manipulação de frases, fizeram-no chegar bem mais longe que o usual dos cantores populares.
Sinatra apareceu em mais de cinquenta filmes, entre eles: "Anchors Aweigh" (1945), "On The Town" (1949), "From Here To Eternity" (1953), com o qual ganhou o Oscar, "The Man With The Golden Arm" e "High Society" (ambos de 1956), "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962) e "The First Deadly Sin" (1980).
Fez parte do chamado Rat Pack, grupo de artistas muito ativo entre meados da década de 50 e 60.
Teve seu próprio show de TV durante vários anos e nos anos 90 continuou ativo em concertos e gravações, onde lançou uma série de duetos, inclusive via satélite, utilizando recursos da mais moderna tecnologia.
Os seus principais sucessos são "Fly me to the moon", "My Way" e "New York, New York".
Filmografia:
1990 - Listen Up: The lives of Quincy Jones
1988 - (Who framed Roger Rabbit?) (voz)
1984 - (Cannonball run II)
1980 - (The First Deadly Sin)
1977 - (Contract on Cherry Street) (TV)
1974 - (That's Entertainment!)
1970 - (Dirty Dingus Magee)
1968 - (Lady in Cement)
1967 - (Tony Rome)
1967 - (The Naked Runner)
1966 - (The Oscar)
1966 - (Assault on a Queen)
1966 - (Cast a Giant Shadow)
1965 - (Marriage On The Rocks)
1965 - (Von Ryan's Express)
1965 - (None But The Brave)
1964 - (Robin and The 7 Hoods)
1963 - (4 for Texas)
1963 - (Come Blown Your Horn)
1963 - (The List of Adrian Messenger) (participação)
1962 - (The Manchurian Candidate)
1962 - (Advice and Consent) (voz)
1962 - (The Road to Hong Kong)
1962 - (3 Sergeants)
1961 - (The Devil at 4 O'Clock)
1960 - (Pepe)
1960 - (Ocean's Eleven (1960))
1960 - (Can-Can)
1959 - (Never So Few)
1959 - (A Hole in the Head)
1958 - (Some Came Running)
1958 - (Kings Go Forth)
1957 - (Pal Joey)
1957 - (The Joker is Wild)
1957 - (The Pride and the Passion)
1956 - (Around the world in 80 days)
1956 - (Johnny Concho)
1956 - (High Society)
1956 - (Meet me in Las Vegas)
1955 - (The Man with the Golden Arm)
1955 - (The Tender Trap)
1955 - (Guys and Dolls)
1955 - (Not as a stranger)
1954 - (Young at Heart)
1954 - (Suddenly)
1953 - A um passo da eternidade (From here to eternity)
1952 - Ao compasso da vida (Meet Danny Wilson)
1951 - Isto sim que é vida (Double Dynamite)
1949 - Um dia em Nova York (On the Town)
1949 - A bela ditadora (Take me out to the ball game)
1948 - Beijou-me um bandido (The Kissing Bandit)
1948 - O milagre dos sinos (The Miracle of the Bells)
1947 - Aconteceu assim (It Happened in Brooklyn)
1946 - Quando as nuvens passam (Till the Clouds Roll By)
1945 - Marujos do amor (Anchors aweigh)
1945 - A casa em que vivemos (The House I live in)
1944 - Vivendo de brisa (Step lively)
1943 - A lua ao seu alcance (Higher and higher)
1943 - Alvorada da alegria (Reveille with beverly)
1942 - Barulho a bordo (Ship ahoy)
1941 - Noites de rumba (Las Vegas Nights)
Prémios:
Óscar humanitário, em 1972.
Nomeação ao Oscar de Melhor Ator, por "The Man with the Golden Arm" (1955).
Oscar de Melhor Ator secundário, por "From here to eternity" (1953).
Duas nomeações ao Globo de Ouro de Melhor Ator - Comédia/Musical, por "Pal Joey" (1957) e "Come Blown Your Horn" (1963). Vence em 1957.
Globo de Ouro de Melhor Ator secundário, por "From here to eternity" (1953).
Prémio Cecil B. DeMille em 1971, concedido pela Associação de Jornalistas Estrangeiros nos Estados Unidos.
Duas nomeações ao BAFTA de Melhor Ator Estrangeiro, por "Not as a stranger" (1955) e "The Man with the Golden Arm" (1955).
Grammy:
1958
Best Album Cover - Only The Lonely (Frank Sinatra foi Diretor de Arte. Curiosamente seu primeiro Grammy foi pela pintura da capa)
1959
Album Of The Year - Come Dance With Me
Best Vocal Performance, Male - Come Dance With Me
1965
Album Of The Year - September Of My Years
Best Vocal Performance, Male - It Was A Very Good Years
Lifetime Achievement Award
1966
Album Of The Year - Sinatra: A Man And His Music
Record Of The Year - Strangers In The Night
Best Vocal Performance, Male - Strangers In The Night
1979
Trustees Award
1982
GRAMMY Hall Of Fame Award - I'll Never Smile Again (Tommy Dorsey With Frank Sinatra & The Pied Pipers)
1984
GRAMMY Hall Of Fame Award - In the Wee Small Hours
1994
Grammy Legend Award
1995
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance, Male - Duets II
1998
GRAMMY Hall Of Fame Award - The House I Live In
GRAMMY Hall Of Fame Award - I've Got You Under My Skin
1999
GRAMMY Hall Of Fame Award - Frank Sinatra Sings For Only The Lonely
GRAMMY Hall Of Fame Award - September Of My Years
2000
GRAMMY Hall Of Fame Award - My Way
GRAMMY Hall Of Fame Award - Songs For Swinging' Lovers!
2004
GRAMMY Hall Of Fame Award - Come Fly With Me
GRAMMY Hall Of Fame Award - I've Got The World On A String
2005
GRAMMY Hall Of Fame Award - One For My Baby
Discografia:
Álbuns:
1946 The Voice of Frank Sinatra
1947 Songs by Sinatra
1948 Christmas Songs by Sinatra
1949 Frankly Sentimental
1950 Dedicated to You
1950 Swing and Dance with Frank Sinatra
1954 Songs for Young Lovers
1954 Swing Easy!
1955 In the Wee Small Hours
1956 Songs for Swingin' Lovers!
1957 Close to You and More
1957 A Swingin' Affair!
1957 Where Are You?
1957 A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra
1958 Come Fly with Me
1958 Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely
1959 Come Dance with Me!
1959 No One Cares
1960 Nice 'n' Easy
1961 Sinatra's Swingin' Session!!!
1961 Come Swing with Me!
1962 Point of No Return
1961 Ring-a-Ding-Ding!
1961Swing Along With Me (retitled Sinatra Swings)
1961I Remember Tommy
1962 Sinatra and Strings
1962 Sinatra and Swingin' Brass
1962 All Alone
1962 Sinatra Sings Great Songs from Great Britain
1962 Sinatra–Basie: An Historic Musical First (with Count Basie)
1963 The Concert Sinatra
1963 Sinatra's Sinatra
1964 Sinatra Sings Days of Wine and Roses, Moon River, and Other Academy Award Winners
1964 America, I Hear You Singing (with Bing Crosby and Fred Waring)
1964 It Might as Well Be Swing (with Quincy Jones)
1964 12 Songs of Christmas (with Bing Crosby and Fred Waring)
1964 Softly, as I Leave You
1965 September of My Years
1965 My Kind of Broadway
1965 A Man and His Music
1966 Moonlight Sinatra
1966 Strangers in the Night
1966 That's Life
1967 Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim (with Antonio Carlos Jobim)
1967 The World We Knew
1968 Francis A. & Edward K. (with Duke Ellington)
1968 The Sinatra Family Wish You a Merry Christmas (with his children)
1968 Cycles
1969 My Way
1969 A Man Alone
1970 Watertown
1971 Sinatra & Company (with Antonio Carlos Jobim)
1973 Ol’ Blue Eyes Is Back
1974 Some Nice Things I've Missed
1980 Trilogy: Past Present Future
1981 She Shot Me Down
1984 L.A. Is My Lady
1993 Duets
1994 Duets II
Compilações:
1956 This Is Sinatra!
1958 This Is Sinatra Volume 2
1959 Look to Your Heart
1959 The Rare Sinatra
1961 All the Way
1962 Sinatra Sings of Love and Things
1965 Sinatra '65: The Singer Today
1968 Frank Sinatra's Greatest Hits
1972 Frank Sinatra's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
Álbuns ao vivo:
1966 Sinatra at the Sands (with Count Basie)
1974 The Main Event – Live
1994 Sinatra & Sextet: Live in Paris
1995 Sinatra 80th: Live in Concert
1997 Frank Sinatra with the Red Norvo Quintet: Live in Australia, 1959
1999 Sinatra '57 in Concert
2005 Live from Las Vegas (Frank Sinatra album)
2006 Sinatra: Vegas
2009 Live at the Meadowlands
2009 Sinatra: New York
2011 Best of Vegas
1993 Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. at Villa Venice, Chicago - Live 1962
1999 Frank, Sammy & Dean: The Summit in Concert
2001 The Rat Pack Live at the Sands
2002 Ratpack: From Vegas to St. Louis
2002 Christmas with the Rat Pack
2003 The Ultimate Rat Pack Collection: Live & Swingin'
Albums dirigidos por Sinatra:
1946 Frank Sinatra Conducts the Music of Alec Wilder
1956 Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color
1957 The Man I Love (sung by Peggy Lee, arranged by Nelson Riddle)
1958 Sleep Warm (sung by Dean Martin, arranged by Pete King)
1962 Frank Sinatra Conducts Music from Pictures and Plays (arranged by Harry Sukman)
1982 Syms by Sinatra (sung by Sylvia Syms, arranged by Don Costa)
1983 Whats New? (with trumpeter Charles Turner)
Box sets e colecções:
1957 Frankie and Tommy (Sinatra/Dorsey)
1988 All-Time Greatest Hits Vol.1 (Sinatra/Dorsey)
1994 The Song Is You (Sinatra/Dorsey) [5-Disc]
1996 Frank Sinatra & Tommy Dorsey - Greatest Hits
1998 Frank Sinatra & the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra [3-Disc]
2005 The Essential Frank Sinatra with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra [2-Disc]
1953 Get Happy!
1955 Frankie
1956 The Voice
1956 That Old Feeling
1957 Adventures of the Heart
1957 Christmas Dreaming
1958 Love Is a Kick
1958 The Broadway Kick
1958 Put Your Dreams Away
1958 The Frank Sinatra Story in Music
1959 Come Back to Sorrento
1968 Greatest Hits: The Early Years
1968 Someone to Watch Over Me
1968 In Hollywod 1943-1949
1986 The Voice: The Columbia Years (1943-1952) [6-LP]
1987 Hello Young Lovers
1988 Sinatra Rarities: The Columbia Years
1993 The Columbia Years 1943-1952: The Complete Recordings [12-Disc]
1994 The Essence of Frank Sinatra
1995 16 Most Requested Songs
1995 The Complete Recordings Nineteen Thirty-Nine (Harry James & His Orchestra featuring Frank Sinatra)
1995 I've Got a Crush on You
1996 Sinatra Sings Rodgers and Hammerstein
1997 Frank Sinatra Sings His Greatest Hits
1997 Portrait of Sinatra: Columbia Classics [2-Disc]
1998 The Best of the Columbia Years: 1943-1952 [4-Disc]
1998 The Columbia Years 1943-1952: The V-Discs [2-Disc]
2000 Super Hits
2001 Love Songs
2003 The Essential Frank Sinatra: The Columbia Years
2003 The Real Complete Columbia Years V-Discs [3-Disc]
2003 Sinatra Sings Cole Poter
2003 Sinatra Sings George Gershwin
2007 A Voice in Time: 1939-1952 [4-Disc]
2009 From the Heart
1956 This Is Sinatra!
1958 This Is Sinatra Volume 2
1959 Look to Your Heart
1960 Swing Easy
1961 Look Over Your Shoulder
1961 All the Way
1962 The Great Years [3-LP]
1962 Sinatra Sings...of Love and Things
1963 Sinatra Sings the Select Johnny Mercer
1963 Sings Rodgers and Hart
1963 Tell Her You Love Her
1964 The Great Hits of Frank Sinatra
1965 Sings the Select Cole Porter
1966 Forever Frank
1967 Nevertheless I'm in Love With You
1967 Songs for the Young at Heart
1967 The Nearness of You
1967 Try a Little Tenderness
1968 The Best Of Frank Sinatra
1972 The Cole Porter Songbook
1972 The Great Years [3-LP]
1974 One More for the Road
1974 Round # 1
1988 Screen Sinatra
1989 The Capitol Collectors Series
1990 The Capitol Years [3-Disc]
1992 Concepts [16-Disc]
1992 The Best of the Capitol Years
1995 Sinatra 80th: All the Best [2-Disc]
1996 The Complete Capitol Singles Collection [4-Disc]
1998 The Capitol Years [21-Disc, UK]
2000 Classic Sinatra: His Greatest Performances 1953-1960
2002 Classic Duets
2007 Romance: Songs From the Heart
2008 Sinatra at the Movies
2009 Classic Sinatra II
1965 Sinatra '65: The Singer Today
1965 A Man and His Music
1965 My Kind of Broadway
1966 A Man and His Music (Part II): The Frank Sinatra CBS Television Special
1968 Frank Sinatra's Greatest Hits
1972 Frank Sinatra's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
1977 Portrait of Sinatra - Forty Songs from the Life of a Man
1979 Sinatra-Jobim Sessions
1983 New York New York: His Greatest Hits
1990 The Reprise Collection [4-Disc]
1991 Sinatra Reprise: The Very Good Years
1992 Sinatra: Soundtrack To The CBS Mini-Series [2-Disc]
1994 The Sinatra Christmas Album
1995 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings
1996 Everything Happens to Me
1997 The Very Best of Frank Sinatra [2-Disc]
1997 My Way: The Best of Frank Sinatra [2-Disc]
1998 Lucky Numbers
2000 Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre [4-Disc]
2002 Frank Sinatra in Hollywood 1940-1964
2002 Greatest Love Songs
2004 Frank Sinatra Christmas Collection
2008 Nothing But the Best
2009 Seduction: Sinatra Sings of Love [2-Disc]
2008 Frank Sinatra - Greatest Hits
2010 Frank Sinatra: Concert Collection (7 DVD box set)
Álbuns de tributo:
A Jazz Portrait of Frank Sinatra by Oscar Peterson (1959)
Very Sinatra by Ruby Braff (1981)
Perfectly Frank by Tony Bennett (1992)
As I Remember It by Frank Sinatra, Jr. (1996)
Manilow Sings Sinatra by Barry Manilow (1998)
Keely Sings Sinatra by Keely Smith (2001)
Plays Sinatra His Way by Joey DeFrancesco (2004)
Allow Us to Be Frank by Westlife (2004)
Songs of Sinatra by Steve Tyrell (2005)
Blue Eyes Meets Bed-Stuy The Notorious B.I.G. & Frank Sinatra by Dj Cappel & Smitty (2005)
L'allieva by Mina (2005)
Bolton Swings Sinatra by Michael Bolton (2006)
Dear Mr. Sinatra by John Pizzarelli (2006)
Ray Stevens Sings Sinatra...Say What?? by Ray Stevens (2008)
His Way, Our Way on ITunes (2009)
Sinatraland by Patrick Williams and His Big Band (1998)
Steve Lawrence Sings Sinatra by Steve Lawrence (2003)
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