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| Birth Name(s) : Nancy Sandra Sinatra |
Date of Birth: June 8, 1940 |
| Status:
Married
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Partner:
Hugh Lambert |
| Profession:
Actor/Musician |
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Full Nancy Sinatra Biography
| Born as the first child of Frank and Nancy Sinatra in Jersey City on June 8th 1940. First TV appearance was with her father and Elvis Presley in 1959. First appeared as a film actress in 1964 in For Those Who Think Young (1964) and Get Yourself a College Girl (1964). Nancy appeared alongside Elvis in Speedway (1968). Also had a successful career as a singer with two US chart-toppers ("These Boots are made for Walking" and the duet with her father called "Somethin' Stupid") as well as numerous other chart entries including the John Barry / Leslie Bricusse penned theme song to the James Bond film You Only Live Twice (1967). Lee Hazlewood wrote many of her songs and sang with her on some of them. By the early 70s she was covering new ground by recording songs from other writers such as Bob Dylan, Smokey Robinson, Lynsey De Paul and Roy Wood. In recent years, Nancy has made a comeback also not hindered by the recent successful re-recording of "Somethin' Stupid" by Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman. |
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Additional Nancy Sinatra Biography
Nancy Sandra Sinatra (born June 8, 1940, in Jersey City, New Jersey) is an American singer and actress. She is the daughter of popular singer Frank Sinatra and his first wife, Nancy Barbato, and remains best known for her 1966 signature hit "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'".
An impressive run of chart singles followed, including the two 1966 Top 10 hits "How Does That Grab You, Darlin'?" (#7) and "Sugar Town" (#5). Her late 1966 album release, Sugar, was banned in Boston due to its cover image of Sinatra in a bikini. The ballad "Somethin' Stupid" — a duet with father Frank Sinatra — hit #1 both in the US and the UK in April 1967 (and spent nine weeks at the top of Billboard's easy listening chart). DJs at the time often referred to the familial record as "the incest song." Nonetheless, it earned a Grammy nomination for Record of the Year and remains the only father-daughter duet to hit No.1 in the U.S. Other notable 45s showcasing her trademark forthright delivery include "Friday’s Child" (#36, 1966), and the 1967 hits "Love Eyes" (#15) and "Lightning’s Girl" (#24). She rounded out 1967 with the playfully raunchy but low-charting "Tony Rome" (#83) — the title track from the movie starring her father — while her first solo single in 1968 was the more wistful "100 Years" (#69).
Sinatra enjoyed a parallel recording career cutting duets with the husky-voiced, country-and-western-inspired Hazlewood, starting with "Summer Wine" (originally the B-side of "Sugar Town"). Their biggest hit was a cover of the country song, "Jackson". The single peaked at #14 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the summer of 1967, when Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash also made the song their own. In December they released the "MOR"-psychedelic single "Some Velvet Morning", which is generally regarded as one of the more unusual singles in all of pop, and the peak of Sinatra and Hazlewood’s vocal collaborations. It reached #26 nationally. The promo clip is, like the song, sui generis. The British broadsheet The Daily Telegraph placed "Some Velvet Morning" in the pole position in its 2003 list of the Top 50 Best Duets Ever. ("Somethin' Stupid" ranked number 27) .
She also made guest appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, among others, and starred in a number of television specials. These include the Emmy-nominated 1966 special A Man and His Music - Part II, and, most notably, the 1967 Emmy-winning special Movin' with Nancy, in which she appeared with Lee Hazlewood, her father and his Rat Pack pals Dean Martin and Sammy Davis, Jr., with a cameo appearance by her brother Frank Sinatra Jr..
Sinatra remained with Reprise until 1970. In 1971, she signed with RCA, resulting in three album releases: Nancy & Lee – Again (1971), Woman (1972), and a compilation of some of her Reprise recordings under the title This Is Nancy Sinatra (1973). That same year she released a non-LP single, "Sugar Me" b/w "Ain't No Sunshine". The former was written by Lynsey De Paul/Barry Blue and, together with other covers of works by early-70s popular songwriters, resurfaced on the 1998 album How Does It Feel.
In the autumn of 1971 Sinatra and Hazlewood’s duet "Did You Ever?" reached number two in the UK singles chart. In 1972 they performed for a Swedish documentary, Nancy & Lee In Las Vegas, which chronicled their Vegas headliner concerts at the Riviera Hotel and featured solo numbers and duets from several concerts, behind-the-scenes footage, and scenes of Sinatra's late husband, Hugh Lambert, and her mother.. The film did not appear until 1975.
Taking her father's advice from when she began her recording career ("Own your own masters"), she owns or holds an interest in most of her material, including videos.
In 2004 she collaborated with former Los Angeles neighbour Morrissey to record a version of his song "Let Me Kiss You", which was featured on her critically acclaimed autumn release Nancy Sinatra. The single — released the same day as Morrissey’s version — charted at #46 in the UK, providing Sinatra with her first hit for over 30 years. The follow-up single, "Burnin' Down the Spark", failed to chart. The album, originally titled To Nancy, with Love, featured contemporary rock performers such as Calexico, Sonic Youth, U2, Pulp's Jarvis Cocker, Steven Van Zandt, Jon Spencer, and Pete Yorn, who all cited Sinatra as an influence on their music. Each artist crafted a song for Sinatra to sing on the album.
Sinatra, a gay icon, also recorded the song "Another Gay Sunshine Day" for Another Gay Movie in 2006.
Nancy appeared, as herself, on one of the final episodes (Chasing It) of the HBO mob drama The Sopranos. Her brother, Frank Jr., had previously appeared in the 2000 episode The Happy Wanderer.
Nancy recorded a public service announcement for Deejay Ra's 'Hip-Hop Literacy' campaign, encouraging reading of Quentin Tarantino screenplays and related books.
Children:
- Angela Jennifer Lambert (whose godparents are James Darren and his second wife)
- Amanda Lambert.
(NOTE: There is a discrepancy that Sinatra did not actually record the b-side, "Dolly and Hawkeye." Sinatra, on her web site, claims she never recorded the song. However, the label does list Sinatra as the artist)
- "A Gentle Man Like You"/"It's For My Dad" (1977) |
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