Francis
Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an iconic
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.

Sinatra
had three children; Nancy, Frank Jr. and Tina by his first wife Nancy
Barbato. He was married three more times, to the actresses Ava Gardner
and Mia Farrow and finally to Barbara Marx, to whom he was married at
his death.

#1 WIKI BIO:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Sinatra


#2 Rat Pack: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Pack


#3 Sinatra Doctrine:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinatra_Doctrine

#4 FBI Files on Frank Sinatra:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI_...nk_Sinatra