Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915, Hoboken, New Jersey - May 14, 1998, Los Angeles, California) is an American singer (crooner), film actor, film director, producer, showman, conductor, and political activist. Winner of the Oscar film award. He won the Grammy Award eleven times. He was famous for his high skill in performing songs, for his virtuoso technique of intonational phrasing, for the clear articulation of each word and syllable, and for the "velvet" timbre of his voice. Over 60 years of his creative career, Sinatra performed in the studio and at concerts more than two thousand songs by various authors, toured in more than 40 countries around the world and more than 150 million copies of records with his songs have been sold.
In the 20th century, Sinatra became a legend not only in the musical world, but in every aspect of American culture. When he passed away, some journalists wrote: “To hell with the calendar. The day Frank Sinatra died is the end of the 20th century.” Sinatra's singing career began in the 1930s, and by the end of his life he was considered the standard of musical style and taste. The songs performed by him entered the classics of pop and styles of jazz, swing and pop music, became the most striking examples of the pop-jazz manner of singing "crooning", several generations of Americans were brought up on them. In his younger years, he was nicknamed Frankie (eng. Frankie) and the Voice (eng. The Voice), in later years - Mr. Blue Eyes (eng. Ol' Blue Eyes), and then - Chairman (eng. Chairman). Over sixty years of active creative activity, he recorded about a hundred consistently popular single discs, performed the most famous songs of the largest US composers - George Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Col Porter, Richard Rodgers, Henry Mancini and Irving Berlin, as well as European composers - Bert Kaempfert (Strangers in the Night, The World We Knew), Claude Francois, Michel Legrand and other authors.
In addition to his musical triumph, Sinatra was also a successful film actor; The high point of his career was the 1954 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in From Here to Eternity. His “piggy bank” contains many film awards: from the Golden Globes to the US Screen Actors Guild Award. During his life, Sinatra starred in more than sixty films, the most famous of which were "Firing to the City", "From Here to Eternity", "The Man with the Golden Arm", "High Society", "Pride and Passion", "Eleven Ocean's Friends" and "The Manchurian Candidate".
Frank Sinatra was awarded the Golden Globe, the US Screen Actors Guild and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and a year before his death he was awarded the highest US award - the Congressional Gold Medal.