One hundred years with The Voice – Daily News – Lisbon

Frank Sinatra would complete today one hundred years of life. Soon, there will be honor in CCB

At birth was presumed dead and saved by improvisation grandmother who put him under a cold water tap. At death, he was buried with a bottle of Jack Daniels and Camel cigarettes without filter which friends there left in his honor. In between, he earned the epithet of The Voice, the greatest pop singer of all time, made news in music, cinema, the girlfriends and suspected of being too close to the Mafia. Today, Frank Sinatra would a hundred years.

The first years of Frank Sinatra were not easy. With more than six kilos, almost died at birth and life, childbirth, won an eardrum injury. Neither baptism went well – where the mother wanted to see Martin, her husband’s name, the priest wrote Frank, the godfather’s name. Then childhood was spent in Hoboken, New Jersey, among poor families and subjected to various forms of discrimination, Sinatra grew hard, given the beatings, but tuned. At ten, debuted in the local church choir, followed by the high school and shortly after, when his father even dreamed of seeing him degree in engineering, he went to the radio.

In 1935 in Hoboken, Sinatra had heard that the local trio would risk a program dedicated to amateur radio in the greater New York and asked to join. And when the premiere, the Hoboken Four shone – they won the contest, won the right to join the tour as the host of the program and promoted the first paycheck, $ 75 divided by four. Little, but still enough that at age 20 Sinatra passed the professional and that the slogan of the program would prove set, “today the amateurs will be the stars of tomorrow.” No one imagined how far would rise the boy blue eyes.

quickly went solo, sang in exchange for food and cigarettes, but only tassel would return to radio. Four years later, it would be with the help of women – married Nancy in February 1939 – which could open the showbiz door. Secretary, earning $ 25 a week, lent 15 that Sinatra was photographed and recorded the first demo. Once, it was enough to send it to Harry James that would hire for your band. But Sinatra was already in another rhythm and seven months later changed the band of Tommy Dorsey. Together were to launch more than 40 singles and in 1942 already Sinatra was the most popular singer in the United States.

During the war

Discharged from military service by damage to the eardrum and politically active, Sinatra became the focus of attention. On the one hand, participating in mobilization activities, on the other was seen as more democratic and who was once referred to as a communist sympathizer in McCarthyism inquiries. Politics, rowdy fame he had won and the problems in his voice would make the second half of the 40s in his first real crisis. However, at the entrance of the 50s, Sinatra would fulfill its motto of life, the same as today is engraved on his grave, “the best is yet to come.” After marrying the actress Ava Garner at 49, in 1953 signed by Capitol Records, where would record their greatest classics, and won a role in From Here to Eternity. Indifferent to rumors that had been the Mafia to guarantee his place in Fred Zinnemann film, flashed on the screen and the performance earned him an Oscar for best supporting actor.

But a new threat loomed in air and the decade would also bring its biggest rival, Elvis Presley. Averse to rock n ‘roll to the middle of the decade took by storm the waves of radio, Sinatra left Capitol to launch his own label In Reprise, Sinatra began to show gifts hitherto hidden -.. The entrepreneur edited Elvis, Paul Simon, the Beatles, Joni Mitchel and to complete 50 years, indifferent to fashions, was at the height To enhance the curriculum or lacked such a big deal as controversial -. in 1960 bought a casino, the Cal Neva Lodge, with Dean Martion and Sam Giancana, known member of the Chicago mob, as partners

With a list of unique hits -. Fly Me to the Moon, Come Fly with Me, I Get a Kick Out of You, Night and Day , Strangers in the Night, My Way, New York New York … -, the past few years would be passed to act at Caesars Palace, a casino in Las Vegas Voice Lord, among many others, made him the favorite singer. Miles Davis and Duke Ellington, Sinatra died on May 14, 1998 after 83 years as one of the artists with more sales history. This number continues to increase and to this day the world seeks a new voice. One that deserves the praise that Sammy Davis jr., His companion in the Rat Pack during the 60s, and did. “No one delivers a letter to Sinatra. Needless to sing, just say that.”