Frank Sinatra 弗兰克 西纳特拉(1915.12.12)
原名: Francis Albert Sinatra
(注:Youtube 若干他的歌曲录像或者视频访问者超过若干百万。很多人说打算用他的歌曲作为自己的葬礼用歌,比如My Way, Moon River 等。2008年新年其间BBC关于他的节目至今不忘。)
国籍:美国 出生地:纽约 30年代末步入歌坛,曾经在一些餐厅乐团驻唱过,包括爵士乐坛上著名的Tommy Dorsey大乐团。40年代后,单飞后除了灌录多张专辑外,也参与电影的演出。
Sinatra出身贫寒,他的父母亲都是来自意大利的移民,因此他根本没有机会获得良好的教育。在他十六岁的时候,就中途辍学,选择演唱作为自己谋生的手段,当时由于他藉藉无名,很难获得唱片公司的合同,因此哪里能够挣到钱,哪里有观众,他就在哪里演唱。在此时,他的演唱只是他谋生的手段而已。然而他天生一份歌唱家的嗓子,在加入“霍布肯四人演唱小组”之后,终于得到了人们的注意。在1935年一次由广播电台举办的业余歌手大赛中,他们的乐队夺得了大奖,当时的奖项名字叫做“梅杰·鲍维斯业余天才小时”。他的小组在获胜之后,取得了同鲍维斯合作参加巡回演出的机会。后来他参加一部电影的拍摄,当时他试演的角色是一位脸涂黑了的男士,这种角色产生的影响力很难说是好还是坏。从1937年到1939年,这支乐队一直在新泽西州的一家叫做“生锈的船舱”的街头餐馆中演唱。从1939年起,他开始在WNEW电台的“舞曲天堂”节目中演唱,以此谋生。
三十年代未,哈里·詹姆斯离开了Benny Goodman的乐队,转而组建自己的乐队,当时他最先联络的歌手就是Sinatra。在1939年的夏天,Sinatra和詹姆斯的乐队录制了一首歌曲,曲名是《全部或一无所有》,这首歌总共卖出了八千张。在这张唱片发行的最初还未计人Sinatra的名下,因为他的名气还不大,还难以吸引听众。可是在1943年当哥伦比亚唱片公司重新出版此曲时,这首歌竟然成为了排行榜的冠军曲。
1940年Sinatra和道尔西开始合作录音。当时他的演唱由一支名为穿花衣服的管乐器吹奏者的合唱四人组伴唱,这支四重唱组中包括了约·斯塔福德和康尼·海思斯。这支乐队和西纳特拉一起走上了银幕,这是第一部由西纳持拉出演主要角色的电影。但是,《拉斯维加斯之夜》并未如他的歌曲一样受到观众的欣赏,这部电影既未赢得观众,也未获得奥斯卡金像奖,然而事实上此时的Sinatra已经成为了商业上的偶像崇拜的目标。他在1940年至1943年期间的一系列影片都受到了欢迎。
1942年,Sinatra已经成为了一位引人隔目的歌手。他买下了当初和道尔西定下的合同,成为了一位自由的歌手。在1942年他在派拉蒙剧院演出了一个月,当时的合作者是著名的单簧管演奏家Benny Goodman。当时的演出盛况空前,人们争相睹大师的风采,都想亲眼见一见他们心中的偶像。在1944年Sinatra的回聘演出竟然造成了交通阻塞,大约有两万五千青少年歇迷拥挤在街道之上,壮观的场面几乎使人忘记了这还是在二次世界大战期间。1943年,他为哥伦比亚唱片公司录制了他首张个人独唱音乐会。而在其后的十年里,他先后录制了86张个人唱片,其中有33张成为了排行榜上的前十名。这种业绩在今天简直是无法想象的,可以毫不夸张地说,当时的Sinatra是当之无愧的天皇巨星。音乐上的成功促使Sinatra重又萌生了上银幕的念头。
在1951年他的婚变成为了报纸争相报道的话题,他离开了自己的妻子南希,同著名影星爱娃·加德纳结婚这在当时被认为是不义之举,南希成为了人们同情的对象,西纳特技和加德纳则成为了受谴责的目标。与此同时,在五十年代初盛行于美国文艺界的麦卡锡主义也把矛头指向了西纳持拉。
在1946年,他赢得了一项奥斯卡金像奖的特别奖并作为赞成宗教和种族宽容的代言人的努力建立起他作为自由主义者以及具有进步思想的个人主义者的声望。也许在这与实际相差甚远,但在公众的眼中,Sinatra确实是值得广泛尊重的。他的这种声望一直延续到六十年代,直到他支持的党派换成了共和党。
1954年,Sinatra再次赢得了奥斯卡金像奖,他成功地出演了影片《从此到永远》,这帮助他走出了五十年代中期开始的低谷期。
六十年代,西纳持拉重新确认了他在爵士乐坛的地位,他先后录制了有唐·科斯塔和尼尔·海夫蒂编曲的专辑。另外,还和Count Basie合作。
他曾经退休过一段时间,但在1973年他录制的《奥尔的蓝眼睛又和从前一样》爬上了排行榜的第十五位。他的下一张专辑成绩也不错,进人了前四十名,这张名为《西纳特技一主要事件》的两张唱片装的专辑中因为一些乏味的素材而显得杂乱无章。在1980年已经65岁的Sinatra重返排行榜,此次他推出的是专辑《三部曲:过去,现在和未来》。
西纳持拉的私生活简直就可以写一本书。他的一系列婚姻丑闻,在旅馆和夜总会中的意外事件对于俱乐部老板,演艺人士,评论家的谣言以及报复,还有同黑帮的瓜葛早在基蒂·凯莱并不著名的传记出版之前就充斥于大大小小报刊和杂志中。
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。他唱这首歌时已经年过半百,他富有传奇色彩和复杂地为世人褒贬不一的人生经历奠定了他唱歌时的心境,能驾驭好这首歌的人非他没属。他可以说上世纪最成功的艺人,白人爵士歌王,留下金曲无数;作为演员,他也曾问鼎奥斯卡金像奖;他和政客以及黑帮都有联系…………演唱会版本并非忠实于最初发行版本,因为sinatra年事已更高,他唱得看似比较
随意,但是到了高潮部分还是那么富有激情和感染力,可谓宝刀不老。1998年三大男高音在法国世界杯演唱会上联袂合唱My way向台下80多岁高龄的Frank Si nata 致敬,而就在那一年sinatra离开人世。
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 LifeThat'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