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Frank Sinatra 弗蘭克 西納特拉(1915.12.12--1998)zt

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Frank Sinatra 弗蘭克 西納特拉(1915.12.12)
原名: Francis Albert Sinatra
(注:Youtube 若幹他的歌曲錄像或者視頻訪問者超過若幹百萬。很多人說打算用他的歌曲作為自己的葬禮用歌,比如My Way, Moon River 等。2008年新年其間BBC關於他的節目至今不忘。)

國籍:美國 出生地:紐約 30年代末步入歌壇,曾經在一些餐廳樂團駐唱過,包括爵士樂壇上著名的Tommy Dorsey大樂團。40年代後,單飛後除了灌錄多張專輯外,也參與電影的演出。

Sinatra出身貧寒,他的父母親都是來自意大利的移民,因此他根本沒有機會獲得良好的教育。在他十六歲的時候,就中途輟學,選擇演唱作為自己謀生的手段,當時由於他藉藉無名,很難獲得唱片公司的合同,因此哪裏能夠掙到錢,哪裏有觀眾,他就在哪裏演唱。在此時,他的演唱隻是他謀生的手段而已。然而他天生一份歌唱家的嗓子,在加入“霍布肯四人演唱小組”之後,終於得到了人們的注意。在1935年一次由廣播電台舉辦的業餘歌手大賽中,他們的樂隊奪得了大獎,當時的獎項名字叫做“梅傑·鮑維斯業餘天才小時”。他的小組在獲勝之後,取得了同鮑維斯合作參加巡回演出的機會。後來他參加一部電影的拍攝,當時他試演的角色是一位臉塗黑了的男士,這種角色產生的影響力很難說是好還是壞。從1937年到1939年,這支樂隊一直在新澤西州的一家叫做“生鏽的船艙”的街頭餐館中演唱。從1939年起,他開始在WNEW電台的“舞曲天堂”節目中演唱,以此謀生。

三十年代未,哈裏·詹姆斯離開了Benny Goodman的樂隊,轉而組建自己的樂隊,當時他最先聯絡的歌手就是Sinatra。在1939年的夏天,Sinatra和詹姆斯的樂隊錄製了一首歌曲,曲名是《全部或一無所有》,這首歌總共賣出了八千張。在這張唱片發行的最初還未計人Sinatra的名下,因為他的名氣還不大,還難以吸引聽眾。可是在1943年當哥倫比亞唱片公司重新出版此曲時,這首歌竟然成為了排行榜的冠軍曲。

1940年Sinatra和道爾西開始合作錄音。當時他的演唱由一支名為穿花衣服的管樂器吹奏者的合唱四人組伴唱,這支四重唱組中包括了約·斯塔福德和康尼·海思斯。這支樂隊和西納特拉一起走上了銀幕,這是第一部由西納持拉出演主要角色的電影。但是,《拉斯維加斯之夜》並未如他的歌曲一樣受到觀眾的欣賞,這部電影既未贏得觀眾,也未獲得奧斯卡金像獎,然而事實上此時的Sinatra已經成為了商業上的偶像崇拜的目標。他在1940年至1943年期間的一係列影片都受到了歡迎。

1942年,Sinatra已經成為了一位引人隔目的歌手。他買下了當初和道爾西定下的合同,成為了一位自由的歌手。在1942年他在派拉蒙劇院演出了一個月,當時的合作者是著名的單簧管演奏家Benny Goodman。當時的演出盛況空前,人們爭相睹大師的風采,都想親眼見一見他們心中的偶像。在1944年Sinatra的回聘演出竟然造成了交通阻塞,大約有兩萬五千青少年歇迷擁擠在街道之上,壯觀的場麵幾乎使人忘記了這還是在二次世界大戰期間。1943年,他為哥倫比亞唱片公司錄製了他首張個人獨唱音樂會。而在其後的十年裏,他先後錄製了86張個人唱片,其中有33張成為了排行榜上的前十名。這種業績在今天簡直是無法想象的,可以毫不誇張地說,當時的Sinatra是當之無愧的天皇巨星。音樂上的成功促使Sinatra重又萌生了上銀幕的念頭。

在1951年他的婚變成為了報紙爭相報道的話題,他離開了自己的妻子南希,同著名影星愛娃·加德納結婚這在當時被認為是不義之舉,南希成為了人們同情的對象,西納特技和加德納則成為了受譴責的目標。與此同時,在五十年代初盛行於美國文藝界的麥卡錫主義也把矛頭指向了西納持拉。

在1946年,他贏得了一項奧斯卡金像獎的特別獎並作為讚成宗教和種族寬容的代言人的努力建立起他作為自由主義者以及具有進步思想的個人主義者的聲望。也許在這與實際相差甚遠,但在公眾的眼中,Sinatra確實是值得廣泛尊重的。他的這種聲望一直延續到六十年代,直到他支持的黨派換成了共和黨。

1954年,Sinatra再次贏得了奧斯卡金像獎,他成功地出演了影片《從此到永遠》,這幫助他走出了五十年代中期開始的低穀期。

六十年代,西納持拉重新確認了他在爵士樂壇的地位,他先後錄製了有唐·科斯塔和尼爾·海夫蒂編曲的專輯。另外,還和Count Basie合作。

他曾經退休過一段時間,但在1973年他錄製的《奧爾的藍眼睛又和從前一樣》爬上了排行榜的第十五位。他的下一張專輯成績也不錯,進人了前四十名,這張名為《西納特技一主要事件》的兩張唱片裝的專輯中因為一些乏味的素材而顯得雜亂無章。在1980年已經65歲的Sinatra重返排行榜,此次他推出的是專輯《三部曲:過去,現在和未來》。

西納持拉的私生活簡直就可以寫一本書。他的一係列婚姻醜聞,在旅館和夜總會中的意外事件對於俱樂部老板,演藝人士,評論家的謠言以及報複,還有同黑幫的瓜葛早在基蒂·凱萊並不著名的傳記出版之前就充斥於大大小小報刊和雜誌中。

作品:

The Frank Sinatra Story in Music

In the Wee Small Hours

Songs for Young Lovers/Swing Easy

Songs for Swingin'Lovers

Where Are You

A Swingin' Affair!

Come Fly with Me

Sings for Only the Lonely

Come Dance with Me!

No One Cares

Nice 'n' Easy

Sinatra's Swingin' Sessions!!!

Sinatra/Basie

Sinatra&Sextet:Live in Paris

Francis Albert Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim

Francis A. Sinatra & Edward K.Ellington

Frank Sinatra's Greatest Hits!

The Voice:The Columbia Years(1943-1952)

The Capitol Years

The Reprise Collection

The Capitol Collectors Series

Simatra Reprise: The Very Good Years

Sinatra

The Columbia Years(1943-1952)The Complete Recordings

I'll Be Seeing You

The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings

The Best of the Columbia Years: 1943-1952

Sinatra 80th - All the Best


My Way, Frank Sinatra最著名最重要的一首歌。他唱這首歌時已經年過半百,他富有傳奇色彩和複雜地為世人褒貶不一的人生經曆奠定了他唱歌時的心境,能駕馭好這首歌的人非他沒屬。他可以說上世紀最成功的藝人,白人爵士歌王,留下金曲無數;作為演員,他也曾問鼎奧斯卡金像獎;他和政客以及黑幫都有聯係…………演唱會版本並非忠實於最初發行版本,因為sinatra年事已更高,他唱得看似比較
隨意,但是到了高潮部分還是那麽富有激情和感染力,可謂寶刀不老。1998年三大男高音在法國世界杯演唱會上聯袂合唱My way向台下80多歲高齡的Frank Si nata 致敬,而就在那一年sinatra離開人世。
 

Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor.

Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers". His professional career had stalled by the 1950s, but it was reborn in 1954 after he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

He signed with Capitol Records and released several critically lauded albums (such as In the Wee Small Hours, Songs for Swingin' Lovers, Come Fly with Me, Only the Lonely and Nice 'n' Easy). Sinatra left Capitol to found his own record label, Reprise Records (finding success with albums such as Ring-A-Ding-Ding, Sinatra at the Sands and Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim), toured internationally, and fraternized with the Rat Pack and President John F. Kennedy in the early 1960s. Sinatra turned 50 in 1965, recorded the retrospective September of My Years, starred in the Emmy-winning television special Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music, and scored hits with "Strangers in the Night" and "My Way".

Sinatra attempted to weather the changing tastes in popular music, but with dwindling album sales and after appearing in several poorly received films, he retired in 1971. Coming out of retirement in 1973, he recorded several albums, scoring a hit with "(Theme From) New York, New York" in 1980, and toured both within the United States and internationally until a few years before his death in 1998.

Sinatra also forged a career as a dramatic actor, winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in From Here to Eternity, and he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for The Man with the Golden Arm. His also starred in such musicals as High Society, Pal Joey, Guys and Dolls and On the Town. Sinatra was honored with the Kennedy Center Honors in 1983 and awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Ronald Reagan in 1985 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 1997. Sinatra was also the recipient of eleven Grammy Awards, including the Grammy Trustees Award, Grammy Legend Award and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

That's Life

That's life, that's what all the people say.
You're riding high in April,
Shot down in May
But I know I'm gonna change that tune,
When I'm back on top, back on top in June.

I said that's life, and as funny as it may seem
Some people get their kicks,
Stompin' on a dream
But I don't let it, let it get me down,
'Cause this fine ol' world it keeps spinning around

I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate,
A poet, a pawn and a king.
I've been up and down and over and out
And I know one thing:
Each time I find myself, flat on my face,
I pick myself up and get back in the race.

That's life
I tell ya, I can't deny it,
I thought of quitting baby,
But my heart just ain't gonna buy it.
And if I didn't think it was worth one single try,
I'd jump right on a big bird and then I'd fly

I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate,
A poet, a pawn and a king.
I've been up and down and over and out
And I know one thing:
Each time I find myself laying flat on my face,
I just pick myself up and get back in the race

That's life
That's life and I can't deny it
Many times I thought of cutting out
But my heart won't buy it
But if there's nothing shakin' come this here july
I'm gonna roll myself up in a big ball and die
My, My 

 
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