Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert Sinatra (Hoboken, December 12, 1915 - Los Angeles, May 14, 1998), also known as Frank Sinatra was a singer and actor. Nicknamed "the Voz " was one of the most important figures in popular music of the twentieth century and left, through his records and live performances, a legacy canonical with respect to the interpretation of male vocal this music. Its popularity became overwhelming and almost constant throughout his life, but were especially successful during the forties and fifties, and this past decade, with his album for Capitol Company, regarded as the its period of greatest artistic quality as a singer.
His repertoire was based on the work of the most important American popular composers such as Jimmy Van Heusen, Cole Porter, Sammy Cahn or George Gershwin, and his style synthesized, and their origins, fifteen years of mutual influences between the music of jazz inspiration and pop music that began to spread through the radio. Sinatra style built on a natural understanding of popular music, as understood Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Benny Goodman and Louis Armstrong, exploiting the idea that this, in all its aspects, should be an extension of the conversation .
Technically, it is characterized by its meticulous precision in his mastery of phrasing and breathing control, the range of his voice was close to baritone. In terms of its artistic categories, this interpretation is its ability to transmit feelings and emotions embedded in the lyrics.
In Sinatra, any consideration of voice, and even music, it is secondary to that of its primary mission: to tell a story as expressive as possible.
A Sinatra was historically recognized for having been the first singer who made a conscious use of the means of sound amplification in order to place your voice above the sound of the orchestra (the domination of American popular music of the early twentieth century ) and closer to the intimacy of the ear of the listener.
As an actor, Sinatra was a kind of intuitive artist, reluctant to undergo testing and repetitions in a normal recording, so that their interpretations were emotionally intense while irregular. The importance in his life his work was acting capital, for example it was through his role in From Here to Eternity and achievement out of a slump in the personal and artistic movement of the forties to the fifties with lofty the highest rating, in addition to winning the Oscar for her performance at the best supporting actor.
Throughout his career, Sinatra recorded more than 1,300 songs and participated in over fifty films. forbes He received numerous awards and honors, including ten Grammy Awards, the Award of the Academy of Arts and Sciences of the recording and the Medal of Freedom by the U.S. government.


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