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Frank Sinatra



Genres: Big Band & Swing, Easy Listening, Holiday & Seasonal, Vocals
Descriptive "tags": jazz, swing, oldies, easy listening, pop, vocal jazz, rock, classic rock, Big Band, indie, vocal, crooners Powered by AudioScrobbler
Decades Active: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s
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Biography

Francis Albert Sinatra, 12 December 1915, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA, d. 15 May 1998, Los Angeles, California, USA. After working for a time in the office of a local newspaper, The Jersey Observer, Frank Sinatra decided to pursue a professional career as a singer. Already an admirer of Bing Crosby, he was impelled to pursue this course after attending a 1933 Crosby concert, and sang whenever and wherever he could, working locally in clubs and bars. Then, in 1935 he entered a popular US radio talent show, Major Bowes Amateur Hour. Also on the show was a singing trio, and the four young men found themselves teamed together by the no-nonsense promoter. The ad-hoc teaming worked, and the group, renamed "The Hoboken Four", won first prize. Resulting from this came a succession of concert dates with the Major Bowes travelling show, along with club and occasional radio dates. By 1938 Sinatra was singing on several shows on each of a half-dozen radio stations, sometimes for...

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