THE VOICE OF TRUTH
By Mahnuel Muñoz
On December 12, 1915, Frank Sinatra was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, who is still today the quintessence of melodic singers and one of the most influential figures in popular culture. But beyond thoughtful comments aimed at unraveling the mystery of his enduring charm, today it only occurs to me to say that Sinatra is the Voice of voices not because of his incomparable timbre, nor his sophisticated style nor for the strength of his personal charisma nor other stuff…Sinatra is The Voice because the material of his singing is always the truth.
Frank is constantly faithful to himself, with everything that entails, the good and the bad, the sublime and the shabby…not all the superstars who were and are can boast the same thing. What Sinatra gives you in each song, gesture, concert or movie is what scaffolds his life at that moment. If he drags you with a ballad to the darkness of a bar, to invite you to a good drunkenness of whiskey and remorse, it is because he has already tried to silence his ghosts with long drinks; If he makes you feel like you’re in New York even if you’re on the main street of your town, it’s because he knows what it’s like to arrive in the City That Never Sleeps dressed only in your dreams and end up having the Statue of Liberty snapping her fingers at his compass; If it makes you fly to the moon with a fiery and playful swing, it is because it welcomed the astronauts who thought they were pioneers with a wink; You follow Sinatra blindly because you assume he’s telling the truth, and you end up living his stories as your own, to the point of doubting whether his songs excite you…or happen to you. I don’t think there is a greater triumph for an artist.
The thousands of singers who have tried to shelter in his shadow imitate the untying of his tie, the tilt of his hat, and above all his mythical phrasing, but we will not match the complexity and depth of his spell, no matter how good the timbres or the workmanship, that to sing like Frank you need – in addition to Voice and Talent – to live what he lived, a fairly patched heart, a lot of courage and some Jack Daniel’s.
Frank carries on his skin the bristles of the highest peaks of ecstasy and the most terrifying torture chambers of sadness, and he can use those stark experiences to tattoo his songs on us at the first listen. His powerful swings are so irresistible that they invigorate the soul to an uncontrollable level of euphoria, even on the toughest of Mondays, and to remind us that the party always ends, he plunges us into the abyss of disappointment with his suicidal “saloon albums“. In the spanking and the caress, there is and will be the Voice of the Voices, singing life to us.
No matter what your preferred style of music is, I recommend that you have at least one Frank Sinatra album! When you are overwhelmed by the noise and chaos that make up the soundtrack of the everyday world, when you don’t understand love (or you finally understand it), pressing play and listening to good old Frank will put your calm, and your fears, in order. your site.
At his concerts, Frank used to toast the eternal with the audience: “I wish you to live to be a hundred years old, and that the last voice you hear is mine“… and I won’t be the smart guy who disobeys… if we We see so many candles blowing out on our birthday cake, we’ll play your favorite Sinatra song.
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