Francis Albert Sinatra waas born on December 12, 1915, at 415 Monroe Street in Hoboken, New Jersey and was the only child of Italian immigrants Natalina “Dolly” Garaventa, the daughter of a lithographer from Genoa, and Antonino Martino “Marty” Sinatra, the son of grape growers from Lercara Friddi, near Palermo.
Frank developed an interest in music, particularly big band jazz, at a young age. He listened to Gene Austin, Rudy Vallée, Russ Colombo and Bob Eberly, and “idolized” Bing Crosby. His maternal uncle, Domenico, gave him a ukulele for his 15th birthday, and he began performing at family gatherings.
Sinatra died by his wife’s side at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on May 14, 1998, aged 82, after suffering a severe heart attack. He] Sinatra had suffered from ill health for the last few years of his life, and had been frequently hospitalized for heart and breathing problems, high blood pressure, pneumonia and bladder cancer, as well as suffering from dementia. He had made no public appearances following a heart attack in February 1997.
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