Frank Sinatra Research Paper

Frank Sinatra As we inch towards the year 2000, we look back to the pre-dominant individuals of the 20th century. Time magazine voted Frank Sinatra as the world's most influential vocalist of the 20th century. Frank Sinatra not only excelled but transcended music and became a true personality of our time. Whether you're talking about recorded music, live performances, movies or simply living large, Frank Sinatra has done that all. He has become an international figure, having the reputation as a celebrity, icon, bad boy and the greatest singer of American popular songs. He is known as being America's first teen idol and also as a true American Legend. You may all know the name "Frank Sinatra" but you may all not know why Frank Sinatra is …show more content…
His parents were Italian immigrants and he grew up poor in the streets of Hoboken. Those tough early years made him all the more determined to work hard and make something of his life. He was a very ambitious person. Since he was a little boy he loved to sing. In his teen years he attended a Bing Crosby concert and that is when he decided that he too would become a singer. At the age of 19 the first break of his musical career came on when he sang with a band called the Hoboken Four. After that taste of success he knew he had to be a solo singer and make it on his …show more content…
He then recorded the songs that the world loved the most which were "Strangers in the Night", "It was a Very Good Year" and "New York, New York." This is when he was making the most money and was at the prime of his career. He played in more movies and won more awards for them. He then married actress Mia Farrow which ended in divorce a year and a half later. In the early 70's at the age of 55, he felt that he was becoming too old and decided to retire from his singing career. He then sang at the White House for President Richard Nixon and Nixon told him he should continue with his singing career because he had such an excellent voice. So Sinatra began singing again. He kept on singing into his late 70's, well after the point that his voice had lost its luster. He retired in 1995 after experiencing memory lapses during his performances. In the last years of his life, he settled into a quiet, comfortable role as a living legend, a forbidding king who lived in his palace and that only occasionally descended below to mingle among his subjects, usually to accept some award or tribute. Unfortunately his career as a performer was