Biography: Frank Sinatra and the martini-both smooth, both a little dangerous and both swinging icons that define words like "classy" and "cool." His warm voice and personal charm took him halfway, but it was his inimitable, impeccable musical phrasing that made his songs stand out. His talent for putting his own interpretation on a lyric continues to set him apart from the hundreds of other popular vocalists who recorded at the time and it still sets his music above anything going today. Born across the Hudson River in the Italian-American neighborhood of Hoboken, NJ, Sinatra went on to a seven-decade career that took him to Hollywood and to arenas around the world. After being hit with a 4-F defermen .....
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