My way
I made my fair share of mistakes in my life. Others may think that the realization of my mistakes might have been too late but I stand by my actions. I fixed all of my relationships and I got my act together.
I was born December 12, 1915, in Hoboken, New Jersey.My father's name was Anthony Martin Sinatra and My mother Natalie Garaventa.I decided to be a singer after watching Bing Crosby perform. I dropped out of high school, where I was a member of the glee club, and began to sing at local nightclubs. As a teenager life was a joy.
I was born December 12, 1915, in Hoboken, New Jersey.My father's name was Anthony Martin Sinatra and My mother Natalie Garaventa.I decided to be a singer after watching Bing Crosby perform. I dropped out of high school, where I was a member of the glee club, and began to sing at local nightclubs. As a teenager life was a joy.
In this band is where I surfaced out to the world as a singer and I began to catch the eye of this people around this time. My band days, however, were cut short as my solo career started to develop. I married my childhood sweetheart, Nancy, in '39. We had three kids: Nancy, Little Frank, and Tina. I then grew
distant from family life due to my career and my marriage fell apart in '49. I placed about 17 singles in the top ten I believe... I do remember being really lonely around this time. It felt as if even though I had people around me all the time I was alone. Eventually in '43 I debuted my acting career in Higher and Higher.
In 1945, and I even won a special Academy Award for The House I Live In, a 10-minute short made
to promote racial and religious tolerance on the home front. This caused my popularity to slide a little afterwards and I really didn't get it back until '53. I couldn't stay out of the spotlight for THAT long! In ‘51, I married Ava. That relationship lasted a little longer than my
previous marriage but it didn’t work out as we had a divorce at 12 years of
marriage.
By the mid 60s, I was back on top again. I received a Grammy Lifetime
Achievement Award and headlined the ‘65 Newport Jazz Festival with Count
Basie's Orchestra. This period also marked my Las Vegas debut, where I
continued on for years as a main attraction at Caesars Palace.My greatest album perhaps was my reprise album, “Frank Sinatra’s
Greatest Hits!” I’d definitely say that the 60s were my best career years. Songs
in this album included: "Strangers in the Night", "Summer Wind",
"That's Life", "When Somebody Loves
You", and my favorite "Softly, as I Leave You." As a founding
member of the "Rat Pack," alongside Sammy, Dean, Peter and Joey, sadly
I became to epitomize the hard-drinking, womanizing, gambling swinger—an image
constantly reinforced by the popular press and my own albums. This was a hard time in my life. Now that I look back on it-it really was my immature rebel coming out. Nevertheless I came out with perhaps my favorite song "My Way" in this song I liberated myself and expressed how I felt about my life and how I owned up to the way I did things and I expressed my pride on my decisions.I married for a fourth and final time in 1976, to Barb, the love of my
life! Our marriage never really ended. The one thing I won't really discuss in this bio is my political life now that the government has required my full disclosure.
I will say that I stopped fooling around and made a man of myself as I became more old. I began to re-connect with my children. I started to talk to Nancy, Little Frank and Tina but Little Frank seemed to resent me the less out of all of them. It was sad but I deserved it. Anyways Little Frank and I went on tour and I had him be my music director. Being so proud that my son took after me as a singer we shared the stage many times throughout the tour and had real father-son bonding moments. For the time being I have nothing else to write because the rest is being written as I type this.
May 14, 1998, I died of a heart attack at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. I was 82 years old. -Brabara
May 14, 1998, I died of a heart attack at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. I was 82 years old. -Brabara