The Frank Sinatra Show

Francis Albert Sinatra (Eng. Francis Albert Sinatra: December 12, 1915, Hoboken, New Jersey-May 14, 1998, Los Angeles)-American actor, singer (Krugner) and Shoumen. Praised by the romantic style of performing songs and a “honey” voice. In his youth, Frankie (“The Voice”) had the nickname, in later years - Mr. Blue eyes (Ol 'Blue Eyes), and then a respectful elder (“Chairman of the Board”). Songs in his performance were included in the classics of pop-up and the swing style, became the most striking samples of the pop-jazz manner of singing “Krugling”, several generations of Americans were brought up on them. Over 50 years of active creative activity, he recorded about 100 invariably popular syngt discs, performed all the most famous songs of the largest composers of the United States-George Gershvin, Kola Porter and Irving Berlin.

In 1997, he was awarded the highest US award of the gold medal of Congress.

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Friends, I invite you, January 24 at 16-00 in the club 44 (on Yakimanka), watch The Frank Sinatra Show video concert.

Free admission .

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Sinatra is the son of Italian emigrants who, at the turn of the century, were settled by children with their parents on the east coast of America. His father was a native of Palermo (Sicily) and worked as a professional boxer, firefighter and bartender. Frank's mother was from the North Italian city of Lumarthso (near Genoa) and held the position of local chairman of the Democratic Party in Hobokene. Sinatra was the only child in the family. He grew up in a modest environment, compared to the position of many other Italian-American immigrants.

From an early age, he was interested in music, and from the age of 13 he earned money with the help of Ukul, a small musical installation and a megaphone in the bars of his city. Since 1932, Sinatra had small performances on the radio; Ever since he saw his idol Bing Crosby at a concert in Jersey City at a concert in Jersey City, he chose the profession of a singer. In addition, he also worked as a sports journalist of a local newspaper during the Great Depression in the 30s, after he left the university without a diploma. The cinema aroused great interest in him; His favorite actor was Edward G. Robinson, who then starred primarily in the films about gangsters.

With the group “The Hoboken Four”, Sinatra won in 1935 a competition of young talents of the then popular radio show “Major Bowes Amateur Hour” (“Amateur Hour of Major Bowz”) and after some time went with them to his first national tour. After that, since 1937, he worked on a mandatory as a Shoumen in a music restaurant in New Jersey, which was also visited by stars such as Kol Porter, and along with performances on the radio laid the foundations for his professional career.

Sinatra’s career take-off was given to work in the famous swing jazz-orques Trumpet Harry James and thrombonist Tommy Dorsie in 1939-1942. In February 1939, Sinatra married his first love Nancy Barbato. In this marriage in 1940, Nancy Sinatra, who later became a famous singer, was born. She was followed in 1944 Frank Sinatra-Ml. (in 1988-1995, the head of the Sinatra Orchestra) and in 1948 Tina Sinatra, who works as a film producer.

In the late 1940s, Sinatra began the creative crisis of the genre, coincided with a violent novel with actress Ava Gardner. 1949 became the most difficult in the career of the Sinatra: he was fired from the radio, and six months later the plans for holding concerts in New York were grossly broken, Nancy filed for divorce, and Roman with Gardner grew into a loud scandal, Columbia Records refused him in studio time. In 1950, his contract with MGM was terminated, and the new agent from MCA also turned away from the Sinatra. At the age of 34, Frank became the "man of the past." In 1951, Sinatra married Ava Gardner, which he divorced six years later. In addition, Sinatra lost his voice after a strong cold. All these misfortunes were so unexpected and heavy that the singer decided to commit suicide.

The problems with the voice were temporary, and when it recovered, Sinatra began all over again. In 1953, he starred in the film “From now on and Fores and Fores and Frames), having received an Oscar for it as the best second -plan actor. He began to be invited to various film projects, the most successful of which were the “Man with the Golden Arm”, 1955), “11 friends of Ocean” (“Ocean's Eleven”, “The Detective” (“The Detective”, 1968).

Since the late 1950s, Sinatra has played in Las Vegas with such pop stars as Sammy Davis, Dean Martin (Dean Martin), Joe Bishop and Peter Lowford. Their company, known as Rat Pack, worked with John Kennedy during his presidential campaign in 1960. The recordings and performances with the Big-Bends of the County Basy, Billy May, the studio lead orchestras Nelson Riddle and others, which won the Sinatra, the glory of one of the lead masters, were very successful.

In 1966, Sinatra married actress Mia Farrow. He was 51 years old, and she was 21. They parted next year. Ten years later, Sinatra married for the fourth time - on Barbar Marx, with which he lived until the end of his life.

In 1971, Sinatra announced that he was retired, but continued to give rare concerts. In 1980, Sinatra recorded one of his masterpieces - the hit “New York, New York”, becoming the only singer in history that managed to regain the popularity and love of the public in fifty years. In 1988-1989, the Rat Pack farewell tour was held, and the last concert performance of the Sinatra took place in 1994, when he was 78 years old. On May 14, 1998, Frank Sinatra died of a heart attack at the age of 82.