Francis Albert Sinatra most famously just known as Frank Sinatra was a jazz icon and famous actor. Frank Sinatra was born on December 12, 1915 he was raised by two Italian immigrants, his father Anthony Sinatra and his mother Natalie Garavanta. Frank Sinatra grew up on the rough streets of Hoboken, New Jersey and had the mentality to work hard and never give up. Frank Sinatra also dropped out of his school in his senior year so he could pursue his career in music. Frank Sinatra first started out as a saloon singer and then later got to be a band singer for the group ‘the Hoboken four’. Soon Sinatra’s public image was seen as a street thug who was saved by his first wife Nancy Barbato, all of this was just a public stunt planned by his agent George Evans. In 1942 he started his solo career and became known as king of the bobbysoxers. A “Bobby soxer” was what Sinatra called his fans that were girls. Frank Sinatra even wanted to join the armed services after the Pearl Harbor but was denied because he was unfit for service. At about this time Sinatra also started his acting career by appearing in a few small films and really became well known once he got the lead role in the movie Anchors Weigh which came out in 1945. It was even nominated for Best Picture at the academy awards in 1946. Later he cheated on his wife with a lady named Ava Gardner which lead to him and his wife Nancy Barbato to get a divorce. Sinatra’s love life was also a very interesting thing because he had 4 wives and all of them had some sort of drama to them. Sadly on may 14, 1998 Frank Sinatra had a heart attack and died at the age of 82.
Frank Sinatra did not play an instrument he was a singer. He sang a lot of famous songs such as “fly me to the moon...
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...e she was having dinner with drove her to the emergency room. His wife supposedly told him “fight”, “fight” and Frank Sinatra said “I’m losing” which were reportedly his last words. And at 10:50 he was pronounced dead.
I learned a lot about this musician. I learned about how famous Frank Sinatra was and what kind of musical icon he became. I never knew how he died but now I found out that it was a heart attack that killed him. I learned about were he came from and all the struggles he went through to get were he wanted to be. I learned about how his music still has an impact on society to this day. Many people even view him as one of the greatest musicians that ever lived. I also learned about his first moments as a singer and also his last. But what I really learned is that his impact he left on the world and the music industry will not be forgotten.
John Birks, also known as “Dizzy Gillespie” was born October 21,1917. He grew up in Cheraw, South Carolina. Gillespie was the youngest of his nine siblings. Gillespie’s father was a bandleader as well as a bricklayer. His father died when he was only ten years of age. Several years after his father passed away Dizzy Gillespie became a self-taught trombone and trumpet player (“David”). His skills increased so much over time that he later learned how to play the cornet. Gillespie had a special talent for playing these instruments. He was enrolled into the Laurinburg Institute of North Carolina in 1932. The school told him that they wanted him to play for their band. During his time at the school, he practiced his instruments mostly by himself.
He did well when it came to playing different instruments. His favorite musician was Beethoven. He played a violin that he found with two strings at Pershing Square in Los Angeles. He was a man of many talents when it came to playing instruments. He was diagnosed with Schizophrenia when he was in college and he started to hear voices and it took over his life as evidence by him dropping out of college and becoming homeless. Nathaniel played any instrument that he could find. He found instruments such as the violin, trumpet, and cello and transported them in his shopping cart.
The power of television is strong and inevitable. Television has the ability to draw people in and view the world through a perspective one would think unimaginable. After the second world war ended in 1945, electronic sales boomed and more families started to gather around the tv at night to view widely famous television shows. Specifically, The Ed Sullivan Show was known for its plethora of celebrities and up and coming entertainers. The shows popularity was able to take a small town artist and make he or she into an enormous success, specifically, Elvis Presley who was, “something new under the Sun” (Altschuler 30). Teenagers, however, viewed the television as an escape and a look into the unknown and intriguing world of African American culture. Through the extreme recognition of The Ed Sullivan Show, the power of mass media and the fascination with African American culture, Elvis Presley’s success skyrocketed and made him one of the most famous performers of all time whose fame became an inspiration for many.
Tupac Shakur was an actor and a rapper. He was born in Harlem, New York on June 16, 1971, as Lesane Parish Crooks. Both his mother and father were members of the Black Panthers, which later in his career influenced his political views in his songs .At the age of 13, he began his acting career in the production, “Raisin in the Sun” at the Apollo Theater. Tupac’s mother was single mother of two and struggled with money, forcing them to move around a lot and often stay in shelters.Tupac went to Baltimore School of Arts before dropping out and moving to Marin County in California at the age of 17.
...usen and Sammy Cahn. The song has a definite swing rhythm and the saxophone and trumpets imitate Sinatra’s phrases.
...sley performed his music in all types of genres. Presley allowed musicians to step out of the box and be their selves. He had hit songs in gospel, rock, pop, and country. Although he lived a short life, he is still famous in some people’s eyes. I met a woman who had attended one of Elvis’s performances and she said it was the best concert she had ever been to. During the concert she said Elvis was dancing and all the girls were going crazy as always. He removed his scarf and threw it into the crowd she was the lucky one who caught it. She still has his scarf in her house, and will never forget the memories of that night. Elvis passed away on August 16, 1977 in his home from heart failure. The King still lives on in many people’s lives and his music career helped many people. Elvis Presley led the way for many musicians, and has impacted the lives of many people.
Sammy tried to join the army when Pearl Harbor was bombed, but he was too young. The next year, he got in. He had to go through basic training eight times because there was not much room in the army for performers. He was put down and spit on in the army, but that made him want to perform more. Upon his discharge the trio got back together, and Sammy met Frank Sinatra for the first time.
Sinatra’s early years were spent in Hoboken, dreaming of a “better life';. Francis A. Sinatra was born on December 12, 1915, in Hoboken, New Jersey. Being members of the Catholic faith, he was not baptized until April 2, 1916. He faced adversity as soon as he was born, nearly dying of birth complications that left him scarred for three months after he was conceived. As, a result of this, he was often bantered by members of his class and children of his neighborhood, who called ...
"My goal is to be remembered as a human being and as a great performer" (Scalia). Bobby Darin, born Walden Robert Cassotto on May 14th 1936 and later died on December 20th 1973 at the age of 37. Darin was an American singer, songwriter, and actor of film and television. He was the son of an Italian-born cabinet maker in Bronx, New York. He had a normal childhood as many did and was backed with a loving family who supported and encouraged his every musical move. As a child he suffered something called severe rheumatic fever, which is inflammatory disease that may develop as a complication of a streptococcus infection. It is often similar to Strep throat or scarlet fever. This caused him to be much protected in his life and helped him strive to be as successful as he could be with the short life that he had. Later in life he found out that the people he grew up thinking were his parents were in fact not, his mom was the his sister and his ‘parents’ were actually his grandparents, he never found out who his father was. Although he had many complications that did not stop him from following his dream.
...ptly stricken by an illness which landed him in the hospital. He died on April 9, only two months before his 92nd birthday.
The first instrument Robert played was the harmonica. Robert quit school as a teen and started working in the cotton fields. Robert left that life to travel and play his music. He began to play the guitar around the age of fifteen. Famous blues men; Charlie Patton and Willie Brown influenced Johnson when he was young. At age 17, Robert married Virginia Travis. She and their first baby died during childbirth. Johnson then went on the road. Robert traveled all over the Midwest and all the way down to Mississippi and Arkansas. He married Calletta Craft during his travels. She died only a few years later while Robert was on the road.
Armstrong is not only a trumpet player, as a singer, he is also very successful. For many years, jazz lovers tried in ecstasies to imitate his unique voice and scat singing, which was nonsense but with a rhythm. Armstrong was the first to successfully use scat singing, which eventually became a major feature of jazz concerts. His singing method affected almost every jazz singer, including Coypin Crosby in the 1940s, the most charismatic singer in jazz history Billie Holly and Frank Sinatra. Of course, Armstrong's achievements in jazz music could not be summarized by the above description.
Many of us have a dream in life to be remembered by all for something great. It’s a lofty goal that only few have, or ever will achieve. Elvis Presley was one of the few people in our American history that achieved this status. Known as “The King of Rock and Roll”, his achievements have influenced our country like none of its precedents. This paper will explain Elvis Presley’s life, his death, and his profound influence after life.
Bob Hope was born May 29, 1903 in London England, UK. Hope left school when he was nine so he could start and make a living. He had six brothers, and was married to Grace Louis Troxell in 1933-1934. Then he married Dolores Hope in 1934-2003, until his death. Before Hope’s death, they adopted four children. He was an actor, comedian, author, and an athlete. His parents were William Henry Hope who was a Stone man, and his mother Avis Townes who was an opera singer then became a cleaning woman. When world war two began during 1939. Hope would go sing to the troops to lighten their spirits, and make them feel good. Bob Hope died of Pneumonia in July 27, 2003 in Los Angeles, California when he was 100 years old! Bob Hope was a great american to many people, and for many reasons. During this essay you will see why Bob Hope is a great american.
He was also an outlaw in the eyes of the justice department due to his close affiliation with organized crime. All in all, Frank Sinatra is truly a legacy. He began as a young boy who had a passion for singing sweet romantic songs, and died as a god, an entity of music that will forever live on in the hearts of everyone who has heard his voice. I feel that it is a grave inaccuracy to think that a mere compilation album or even larger retrospective multi-disc sets, can give us an accurate musical portrait of the legendary Sinatra. Compilations from the inner and late periods of his career often loot songs from albums for which Sinatra he had carefully chosen the song sequences.