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Francis Albert Sinatra[a] was born on December 12, 1915, in an upstairs tenement at 415 Monroe Street in Hoboken, New Jersey.
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He got his first break in 1935 when his mother persuaded a local singing group, the 3 Flashes, to let him join.
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It was with the James band that Sinatra released his first commercial record "From the Bottom of My Heart" in July. No more than 8,000 copies of the record were sold,[59] and further records released with James through 1939, such as "All or Nothing At All", also had weak sales on their initial release
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Sinatra's first vocal hit was the song "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" in late April 1940.
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Sinatra died with his wife at his side at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on May 14, 1998, aged 82, after a heart attack.
