Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert Sinatra (1915 – 1998) was an American singer and film actor. He was born in Hoboken, New Jersey to Italian immigrants, Sinatra began his musical career in the swing era as a boy singer with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra found success as a solo artist from the early to mid-1940s after being signed by Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the "bobby soxers", he released his first album, The Voice of Frank Sinatra in 1946. His professional career had stalled by the early 1950s, but it was reborn in 1953 after he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Private Angelo Maggio in From Here to Eternity. He was a founding member of the Rat Pack and fraternized with celebrities and statesmen, including John F. Kennedy. Sinatra also garnered an Oscar nomination for Best Actor for The Man with the Golden Arm, and critical acclaim for his performance in The Manchurian Candidate. He also starred in such musicals as High Society,