ANTHONY MARTIN SINATRA
The Voice’s father
By Mahnuel Muñoz
Frank said of his father, Antonino Martino “Anthony” Sinatra:
“He was a very quiet man. He was a lonely and shy man. You would always hear him wheezing, because of his asthma. When he had an attack, a coughing fit, he would disappear and hide in some corner before you even noticed, but “I adored him“
Born in 1892 in the small Sicilian municipality of Lercara Friddi, he emigrated with his parents to the United States when he was eleven years old. He was a boxer, and after being injured fighting, he worked as a tinker, firefighter, smuggler and finally ran his own bar.
He married, with the disapproval of his parents, on February 14, 1913, Natalie Catherine “Dolly” Garavente, another Italian-American of Genoese origin. Their first love nest was a dilapidated building located at 415 Monroe Street, in Hoboken, (New Jersey), where eight other families resided and where they fathered their only son, Francis Albert Sinatra.
When Frankie, in his adolescence, announced his desire to become a singer, his father did not see it favorably and was so upset that he kicked him out of the house, although he later resigned himself. When Frankie had his first successes, Anthony was deeply proud of him.
He died of a heart attack in 1969.
(Pictured, from right to left, Frank, his father Anthony and his mother Dolly.)
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