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Francis Albert Sinatra was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, on December 12, 1915, the only child of Italian immigrants Martin and Natalie "Dolly" Sinatra. His father was a fire-fighter for the city of Hoboken and his mother was an amateur singer who often sang at social events. Sinatra lived in a mainly Italian American working-class neighborhood. His first experience with music came when his uncle gave him a ukulele, and on hot summer nights he loved to go outside and sing while playing the instrument. His other interest was boxing. To protect himself in the tough neighborhood he grew up in, he became a competent boxer.
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Sinatra was born in Hoboken on Dec. 12, 1915, the only child of Martin Sinatra, a boilermaker and sometime boxer from Catania, Sicily, and his wife, Natalie Garavante, who was nicknamed Dolly. The young Francis Albert Sinatra attended Dave E. Rue Junior High School and Demarest High in Hoboken. He decided to become a singer either after attending a Crosby concert or seeing a Crosby film sometime in 1931 or 1932. His mother encouraged his ambition, allowing him to drop out of high school.
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The son of an Italian immigrant fireman, Francis Albert Sinatra started as a copyboy at a hometown newspaper in Hoboken, New Jersey. Not content with a career in journalism he organized a singing group, "The Hoboken Four." His father objected. "Singing is for sissies," he said.
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Born in 1915, Francis Albert Sinatra grew up in Hoboken, N.J., in an age when new technologies — sound films, electronic recording and radio — suddenly made music accessible to a much larger audience. It was ... an era where singing was coming into the modern age, courtesy of Louis Armstrong and Bing Crosby. Though the young Sinatra initially aspired to become a journalist, an encounter with a Bing Crosby film turned him around.
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Francis Albert Sinatra was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, the only child of Italian immigrant parents. Though his parents wanted him to become an engineer, young Sinatra preferred athletics to academics and participated in a variety of sports, including boxing. As a teenager he worked for the Jersey Observer newspaper, often writing about school sporting events in which he was ... a participant.
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Francis Albert Sinatra (1915-1998) may have been the most popular singer in American history, in a career that spanned from the 1930s into the 1990s. Francis Albert Sinatra was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, on December 12, 1915.
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