Frank Sinatra

   Asıl adı, Francis Albert Sinatra’dır. 12 Aralık 1915 yılında Hoboken’de doğdu. Sinema oyuncusu olarak da büyük başarı kazanan ABD’li popüler bir şarkıcıydı. Şarkı söylemeye yaklaşık olarak 1936 yılında başladı. 1937’de kendi kurduğu Hoboken Four adlı toplulukla amatör bir yarışmada birinci oldu. 1939’dabir cafede çalıştığı sırada Harry James’in ilgisini çekerek onun topluluğuna katıldı.aynı yılın Temmuz ayındabu topluluğun eşliğinde söylediği “From the Bottom of My Heart” şarkısıyla ilk plağını yaptı. 1940-1942 arasında Tommy Dorsey Orkestrası’yla çalıştı.31 Aralık 1942’deNew York arasında “Your Hit Parade” adlı radyo programında solo şarkıcı olarak söylediği şarkılarla ülke çapında ünlendi. Sinatra sinemadaki ilk önemli rolünü “Higher and Higher” filminde oynadı.1940’lar boyunca çeşitli müzikal filmlerde rol aldı. 1953’te From Here Eternity’de şarkı söylemeden canlandırdığı Angelo Maggio rolüyle en iyi yardımcı oyuncu Oscar’ını kazandı. Bu başarısının ardından çeşitli rolleri canlandıran bir oyuncu olarak sinemadaki konumunu pekiştirdi.ilerlemiş yaşına rağmen 1990’lı yıllarda hala konser vermekteydi. 1998 yılında ise ABD’nin Los Angeles şehrinde vefat etti.



Albümleri

* The Voice Of Frank Sinatra (Columbia, released 1946)
* Songs By Sinatra (Columbia, 1947)
* Frankly Sentimental (Columbia, 1949)
* Dedicated To You (Columbia, 1950)
* Sing And Dance With Frank Sinatra (Columbia, 1950)

The Capitol Years

* Songs For Young Lovers (Capitol, 1954)
* Swing Easy (Capitol, 1954)
* In the Wee Small Hours (Capitol, 1955)
* Songs For Swingin' Lovers (Capitol, 1956)
* Close to You (Frank Sinatra album)Close To You (Capitol, 1957)
* A Swingin’ Affair (Capitol, 1957)
* Where Are You? (Capitol, 1957)
* A Jolly Christmas From Frank Sinatra
* Come Fly With Me (Capitol, 1958)
* Sinatra Sings For Only The Lonely (Capitol, 1958)
* Come Dance With Me (Capitol, 1959)
* No One Cares (Capitol, 1959)
* Nice’n’Easy (Capitol, 1960)
* Sinatra’s Swingin’Session (Capitol, 1961)

The Reprise Years

* Ring-A-Ding-Ding (Reprise, 1961)
* Come Swing With Me (Capitol, 1961)
* Sinatra Swings (Reprise, 1961)
* I Remember Tommy (Reprise, 1961)
* Sinatra And Strings (Reprise, 1962)
* Point Of No Return (Capitol, 1962)
* Sinatra And Swingin’Brass (Reprise, 1962)
* Sinatra Sings Great Songs From Great Britain (Reprise, 1962)
* All Alone (Reprise, 1962)
* Sinatra-Basie: An Historic Musical First (Reprise, 1963)
* The Concert Sinatra (Reprise, 1963)
* Sinatra’s Sinatra (Reprise, 1963)
* Sinatra Sings...Academy Award Winners (Reprise, 1964)
* Sinatra-Basie: It Might As Well Be Swing: A Meeting Of Giants (Reprise, 1964)
* Softly As I Leave You (Reprise, 1964)
* Sinatra 65: The Singer Today (Reprise, 1965)
* September of My Years (Reprise, 1965)
* My Kind Of Broadway (Reprise, 1965)
* Moonlight Sinatra (Reprise, 1966)
* Strangers In The Night (Reprise, 1966)
* At the Sands with Count Basie (Reprise, 1966)
* That’s Life (Reprise, 1966)
* Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim (Reprise, 1967
* The World We Knew (Reprise, 1967)
* Francis A. & Edward K. (with Duke Ellington, Reprise, 1968)
* The Sinatra Family Wish You A Merry Christmas
* Cycles (Reprise, 1968)
* My Way (Reprise, 1969)
* A Man Alone (Reprise, 1969)
* Watertown (Reprise, 1970)
* Sinatra & Company (Reprise, 1971)
* Ol’ Blue Eyes Is Back (Reprise, 1973)
* Some Nice Things I’ve Missed (Reprise, 1974)
* The Main Event – Live (Reprise, 1974)
* Trilogy: Past Present Future (Reprise, 1980)
* She Shot Me Down (Reprise, 1981)
* L.A. Is My Lady (QWest/Warner, 1984)
* Duets (Capitol, 1993)
* Duets II (Capitol, 1994)

Filmleri

* Major Bowes Amateur Theatre of the Air (1935) (kısa film)
* Las Vegas Nights_(album)|Las Vegas Nights (1941)
* Ship Ahoy (1942)
* Reveille with Beverly (1943)
* Show Business at War (1943) (short subject)
* Upbeat in Music (1943) (short subject) (scenes deleted)
* Higher and Higher (1944)
* Road to Victory (1944) (short subject)
* Step Lively (1944)
* The All-Star Bond Rally (1945) (short subject)
* Anchors Aweigh (1945)
* The House I Live In (1945) (short subject)
* MGM Christmas Trailer (1945) (short subject)
* Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)
* It Happened in Brooklyn (1947)
* Screen Snapshots: Out-of-This-World Series (1947) (short subject)
* Lucky Strike Salesman's Movie 48-A (1948) (short subject)
* The Miracle of the Bells (1948)
* The Kissing Bandit (1948)
* Take Me Out to the Ball Game (film)|Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)
* On the Town (1949)
* Double Dynamite (1951)
* Meet Danny Wilson (1952)
* Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Night Life (1952) (short subject)
* From Here to Eternity (1953)
* Suddenly (1954)
* Young at Heart (movie)|Young at Heart (1954)
* Not as a Stranger (1955)
* Finian's Rainbow (1955) (animated musical, recorded songs with Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald, film never completed)
* Guys and Dolls (1955)
* The Tender Trap (1955)
* The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
* Carousel (1956) (recorded several songs, shot several scenes, walked off set and was replaced by Gordon MacRae)
* Screen Snapshots: Playtime in Hollywood (1956) (short subject)
* Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956) (cameo)
* High Society (1956)
* Johnny Concho (1956)
* Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
* The Pride and the Passion (1957)
* The Joker Is Wild (1957)
* Pal Joey (1957)
* Kings Go Forth (1958)
* Some Came Running (1958)
* Invitation to Monte Carlo (1959) (documentary)
* A Hole in the Head (1959)
* Premier Khrushchev in the USA (1959) (documentary)
* Never So Few (1959)
* Can-Can (1960)
* Ocean's Eleven (1960 movie)|Ocean's Eleven (1960)
* Pepe (1960) (cameo)
* The Devil at Four O'Clock (1961)
* Sinatra In Israel (1962) (short subject)
* Sergeants 3 (1962)
* The Road to Hong Kong (1962) (cameo)
* Advise and Consent (1962) (voice)
* The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
* The List of Adrian Messenger (1963) (cameo)
* Come Blow Your Horn (1963)
* 4 for Texas (1963)
* Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964)
* A Tribute to the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital (1965) (short subject)
* None But the Brave (1965) (also producer and director)
* Von Ryan's Express (1965)
* Marriage on the Rocks (1965)
* The Oscar (1966)
* Cast a Giant Shadow (1966)
* Assault on a Queen (1966)
* Think Twentieth (1967) (short subject)
* The Naked Runner (1967)
* Tony Rome (1967)
* The Detective (1968)
* Lady in Cement (1968)
* Dirty Dingus Magee (1970)
* That's Entertainment! (1974)
* Rene Simard in Japan (1974) (documentary)
* Contract on Cherry Street (1977) (TV Movie)
* The First Deadly Sin (1980)
* Cannonball Run II (1984)
* Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones (1990) (documentary)
* In Person (1993) (voice) (short subject)
* Young at Heart (1994) (Produced by Tina Sinatra) (TV Short)
* Frank Sinatra 80 Years: My Way (1995) (television special)