Frank Sinatra: The Artist and His Music

Title: Frank Sinatra: The Artist and His Music
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Published by: MEI Books
Pages: 85
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Synopsis

Frank Sinatra’s dramatic life sometimes upstaged his genius. Although he was the greatest interpretive singer of the recording era, some commentators emphasize his boozing, brawling, and womanizing rather than his brilliance as a performer, or else they take his brilliance for granted rather than attempting to explain it. In Frank Sinatra: The Artist and His Music, bestselling author David Morrell discusses the talent and determination that led Sinatra to progress from being a singing waiter to becoming the Chairman of the Board.

Many Sinatra fans might be surprised to learn that this intensely autobiographical singer had a face that was permanently scarred from birth. They might also be surprised that, despite the legend of his being a natural, Sinatra took vocal lessons from a Metropolitan Opera singer. In his formative years, he invented a new way for singers to breathe and used this amazing breath technique to channel his self-described manic-depression into interpreting songs in a way that had never been done before.

These are only some of the topics in this rare approach to this powerful singer’s craft. Based on more than forty years of listening and reading, Morrell provides an in-depth analysis of Sinatra’s musical career. After you read it, you might never listen to Sinatra or any other singer the same way again.