Giuseppe Verdi y Frank Sinatra
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Born in the Duchy of Parma in Le Roncole, at that time under Napoleon's occupation, he moved to Busseto in 1824 where he started his musical studies with Ferdinando Provesi. Verdi isalso known as 'the swan from Busseto'. He composed an overture for Gioacchino Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville), then he moved to Milan, but he was not accepted at theconservatory, so he had private studies with Vincenzo Lavigna. Marrying his patron's daughter, Verdi became the municipal music director of Busseto after completing his studies.While Milan was lost and reconquered by the Austrians, Verdi wrote Il Corsaro, La Battaglia di Legnano, and Luisa Miller, and started a ManonLescaut which he would never finish. He died of a stroke in 1901 in Milan after the completion of his 'Casa di Riposo', a retirement villa for poorartists.
FRANK SINATRA
Growing up on the streets of Hoboken, New Jersey, made Frank Sinatra determined to work hard to get ahead. Starting out as a saloon singer in musty little dives (he carriedhis own P.A. system), he got his first major break in 1935 as part of The Hoboken Four on popular radio show Major Bowes Amateur Hour. In 1939 he signed with Harry James as lead singer of his big bandbefore gaining the attention of Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra with whom he sang the first ever No. 1 song on Billboard, I'll Never Smile Again. That same year he married sweetheart Nancy Barbatowith whom he had three children, Nancy, Tina and Frank, Jr. Sinatra's growing popularity led him to leave Dorsey in 1942 and starting in earnest a solo career, instantly finding fame as the number onesinging star among teenage music fans of the era, especially the young women and girls known as The Bobbysoxers.
In 1993 Sinatra stepped back into Capitol studios to record his final albums, Duets...
Born in the Duchy of Parma in Le Roncole, at that time under Napoleon's occupation, he moved to Busseto in 1824 where he started his musical studies with Ferdinando Provesi. Verdi isalso known as 'the swan from Busseto'. He composed an overture for Gioacchino Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville), then he moved to Milan, but he was not accepted at theconservatory, so he had private studies with Vincenzo Lavigna. Marrying his patron's daughter, Verdi became the municipal music director of Busseto after completing his studies.While Milan was lost and reconquered by the Austrians, Verdi wrote Il Corsaro, La Battaglia di Legnano, and Luisa Miller, and started a ManonLescaut which he would never finish. He died of a stroke in 1901 in Milan after the completion of his 'Casa di Riposo', a retirement villa for poorartists.
FRANK SINATRA
Growing up on the streets of Hoboken, New Jersey, made Frank Sinatra determined to work hard to get ahead. Starting out as a saloon singer in musty little dives (he carriedhis own P.A. system), he got his first major break in 1935 as part of The Hoboken Four on popular radio show Major Bowes Amateur Hour. In 1939 he signed with Harry James as lead singer of his big bandbefore gaining the attention of Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra with whom he sang the first ever No. 1 song on Billboard, I'll Never Smile Again. That same year he married sweetheart Nancy Barbatowith whom he had three children, Nancy, Tina and Frank, Jr. Sinatra's growing popularity led him to leave Dorsey in 1942 and starting in earnest a solo career, instantly finding fame as the number onesinging star among teenage music fans of the era, especially the young women and girls known as The Bobbysoxers.
In 1993 Sinatra stepped back into Capitol studios to record his final albums, Duets...
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