Francis Albert Sinatra was an American singer and actor who lived from December 12, 1915, until May 14, 1998. Sinatra was one of the most well-liked entertainers of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. He was known as the “Chairman of the Board” and later as “Ol’ Blue Eyes.” With an estimated 150 million record sales, he is one of the best-selling musicians in the world.
Despite being heavily involved in political activity in 1945 and 1946, Sinatra sang on 160 radio shows, recorded 36 times, and shot four films during those two years. By 1946, he was performing up to 45 times per week on stage, singing up to 100 songs per day, and earning up to $93,000 per week.
In 1946, Sinatra released singles “Oh! What a Wonderful World,” “Day by Day,” “They Say It’s Wonderful,” “Five Minutes More,” and “The Coffee Song,” as well as his debut album, The Voice of Frank Sinatra, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard chart. William Ruhlmann of AllMusic wrote that Sinatra “took the material very seriously, singing the love lyrics with utter seriousness”, and that his “singing and the classically influenced settings gave the songs unusual depth of meaning”.
He soon sold 10 million records per year. Sinatra’s command at Columbia was so strong that his love of conducting was indulged with the release of the set Frank Sinatra Conducts the Music of Alec Wilder, an offering unlikely to appeal to Sinatra’s core fanbase at the time, which was primarily teenage girls.
Who is Frank Sinatra’s wife Barbara Sinatra?
From 1976 until his death, Sinatra was married to Barbara Marx. On July 11, 1976, the couple married at Sunnylands, the estate of media magnate Walter Annenberg in Rancho Mirage, California.
