Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, to Italian immigrants, Sinatra began his musical career in the swing era with bandleaders Harry James and Tommy Dorsey. Sinatra found success as a solo artist after he signed with Columbia Records in 1943, becoming the idol of the "bobby soxers". He released his debut album, The Voice of Frank Sinatra, in 1946. Sinatra's professional career had stalled by the early 1950s, and he turned to Las Vegas, where he became one of its best known residency performers as part of The Rat Pack. His career was reborn in 1953 with the success of From Here to Eternity, with his performance subsequently winning an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. Sinatra released several critically lauded albums, including In the Wee Small Hours (1955), Songs for Swingin' Lovers! (1956), Come Fly with Me (1958), Only the Lonely (1958) and Nice 'n' Easy (1960).
Sinatra left Capitol in 1960 to start his own record label, Reprise Records, and released a string of successful albums. In 1965, he recorded the retrospective September of My Years, starred in the Emmy-winning television special Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music, and released the tracks "Strangers in the Night" and "My Way". After releasing Sinatra at the Sands, recorded at the Sands Hotel and Casino in Vegas with frequent collaborator Count Basie in early 1966, the following year he recorded one of his most famous collaborations with Tom Jobim, the album Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim. It was followed by 1968's collaboration with Duke Ellington. Sinatra retired for the first time in 1971, but came out of retirement two years later and recorded several albums and resumed performing at Caesars Palace, and reached success in 1980 with "New York, New York". Using his Las Vegas shows as a home base, he toured both within the United States and internationally until a short time before his death in 1998.
Sinatra forged a highly successful career as a film actor. After winning an Academy Award for From Here to Eternity, he starred in The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), and received critical acclaim for his performance in The Manchurian Candidate (1962). He appeared in various musicals such as On the Town (1949), Guys and Dolls (1955), High Society (1956), and Pal Joey (1957), winning another Golden Globe for the latter. Toward the end of his career, he became associated with playing detectives, including the title character in Tony Rome (1967). Sinatra would later receive the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1971. On television, The Frank Sinatra Show began on ABC in 1950, and he continued to make appearances on television throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Sinatra was also heavily involved with politics from the mid-1940s, and actively campaigned for presidents such as Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, though before Kennedy's death Sinatra's alleged Mafia connections led to his being snubbed.
While Sinatra never formally learned how to read music, he had an impressive understanding of it, and he worked very hard from a young age to improve his abilities in all aspects of music. A perfectionist, renowned for his dress sense and performing presence, he always insisted on recording live with his band. His bright blue eyes earned him the popular nickname "Ol' Blue Eyes". Sinatra led a colorful personal life, and was often involved in turbulent affairs with women, such as with his second wife Ava Gardner. He went on to marry Mia Farrow in 1966 and Barbara Marx in 1976. Sinatra had several violent confrontations, usually with journalists he felt had crossed him, or work bosses with whom he had disagreements. He was honored at the Kennedy Center Honors in 1983, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Ronald Reagan in 1985, and the Congressional Gold Medal in 1997. Sinatra was also the recipient of eleven Grammy Awards, including the Grammy Trustees Award, Grammy Legend Award and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. After his death, American music critic Robert Christgau called him "the greatest singer of the 20th century", and he continues to be seen as an iconic figure.
Sinatra died with his wife at his side at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on May 14, 1998, aged 82, after a heart attack. Sinatra had ill health during the last few years of his life, and was frequently hospitalized for heart and breathing problems, high blood pressure, pneumonia and bladder cancer. He was further diagnosed as having dementia. He had made no public appearances following a heart attack in February 1997. Sinatra's wife encouraged him to "fight" while attempts were made to stabilize him, and his final words were, "I'm losing." Sinatra's daughter, Tina, later wrote that she and her sister, Nancy, had not been notified of their father's final hospitalization, and it was her belief that "the omission was deliberate. Barbara would be the grieving widow alone at her husband's side." The night after Sinatra's death, the lights on the Empire State Building in New York City were turned blue, the lights at the Las Vegas Strip were dimmed in his honor, and the casinos stopped spinning for a minute.
Sinatra's funeral was held at the Roman Catholic Church of the Good Shepherd in Beverly Hills, California, on May 20, 1998, with 400 mourners in attendance and thousands of fans outside. Gregory Peck, Tony Bennett, and Sinatra's son, Frank Jr., addressed the mourners, who included many notable people from film and entertainment. Sinatra was buried in a blue business suit with mementos from family members—cherry-flavored Life Savers, Tootsie Rolls, a bottle of Jack Daniel's, a pack of Camel cigarettes, a Zippo lighter, stuffed toys, a dog biscuit, and a roll of dimes that he always carried—next to his parents in section B-8 of Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City, California.
His close friends Jilly Rizzo and Jimmy Van Heusen are buried nearby. The words "The Best Is Yet to Come", plus "Beloved Husband & Father" are imprinted on Sinatra's grave marker. Significant increases in recording sales worldwide were reported by Billboard in the month of his death.
Dindi
Frank Sinatra Lyrics
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With far away clouds just wandering by
Where do they go?
Oh, I don't know, don't know
Wind that speaks to the leaves
Telling stories that no one believes
Stories of love belong to you and to me
If I only had words I would say all the beautiful
Things that I see
When you're with me, oh my Dindi
Oh, Dindi
Like the song of the wind in the trees
That's how my heart is singing dindi
Happy Dindi
When you are with me
I love you more each day, yes I do, yes I do
I'd let you go away
If you take me with you
Don't you know, Dindi
I'd be running and searching for you like a river that
Can't find the sea
That would be me without you, my Dindi
Like a river that can't find the sea
That would be me without you, my Dindi, Dindi, Dindi, Dindi
The song "Dindi" by Frank Sinatra is a romantic ballad that describes the emotions of the singer when he is with his lover. The lyrics describe how vast and beautiful the sky is, with clouds wandering far away, and how the wind speaks to the leaves, telling the stories of love that belong to the singer and his beloved. When he is with his lover, the singer sees all the beautiful things around him, so much so that he cannot find the words to describe them. He equates the sound of his heart when he is with his lover to the song of the wind in the trees. He loves his Dindi more each day and cannot imagine his life without her. If she were to leave him, he would be like a river that can't find the sea.
Line by Line Meaning
Sky, so vast is the sky
The sky is incredibly vast and seems to go on forever.
With far away clouds just wandering by
Clouds drift lazily in the sky, far away from everything below.
Where do they go?
No one knows where the clouds are going or where they will end up.
Oh, I don't know, don't know
The artist acknowledges that they do not have the answer.
Wind that speaks to the leaves
The wind whispers secret messages to the leaves of the trees.
Telling stories that no one believes
The messages the wind carries are stories of love, but nobody is willing to believe them.
Stories of love belong to you and to me
Love stories are meant for both the singer and their beloved, Dindi.
Oh, Dindi
The artist addresses their beloved, Dindi, with affection and longing.
If I only had words I would say all the beautiful
The artist wishes they had the ability to describe the beauty they see in Dindi.
Things that I see
The artist sees things in Dindi that are too stunning and ethereal to put into words.
When you're with me, oh my Dindi
The singer feels happiest when Dindi is near.
Like the song of the wind in the trees
The artist's heart sings a beautiful tune, much like the wind's song in the trees.
That's how my heart is singing dindi
The song the singer's heart sings is about Dindi.
Happy Dindi
Dindi brings the singer joy and happiness.
When you are with me
The singer feels content and satisfied when Dindi is near.
I love you more each day, yes I do, yes I do
The artist's love for Dindi grows stronger with each passing day.
I'd let you go away
The artist would be willing to let Dindi leave them.
If you take me with you
As long as Dindi takes the singer with them, they are willing to go anywhere.
Don't you know, Dindi
The singer asks Dindi if they know just how much love they have for them.
I'd be running and searching for you like a river that
If Dindi were to leave, the artist would be persistent in trying to find them, much like a river that keeps flowing until it reaches the sea.
Can't find the sea
The artist would feel lost and incomplete without Dindi, similar to a river that never reaches the sea.
That would be me without you, my Dindi
The artist feels that they would be empty and incomplete without Dindi.
Dindi, Dindi, Dindi, Dindi
The singer repeats Dindi's name several times, emphasizing how important they are to them.
Lyrics © DistroKid, CORCOVADO MUSIC CORPORATION
Written by: Aloysio De Oliveira, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Ray Gilbert
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Cayo Naddeo
Sky, so vast is the sky
With far away clouds just wandering by
Where do they go?
Oh, I don't know, don't know
Wind that speaks to the leaves
Telling stories that no one believes
Stories of love belong to you and to me
Oh, Dindi
If I only had words I would say all the beautiful
Things that I see
When you're with me, oh my Dindi
Oh, Dindi
Like the song of the wind in the trees
That's how my heart is singing dindi
Happy Dindi
When you are with me
I love you more each day, yes I do, yes I do
I'd let you go away
If you take me with you
Don't you know, Dindi
I'd be running and searching for you like a river that
Can't find the sea
That would be me without you, my Dindi
Like a river that can't find the sea
That would be me without you, my Dindi, Dindi, Dindi, Dindi
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LYRICS
Sky, so vast is the sky
With far away clouds just wandering by
Where do they go?
Oh I don't know, don't know
Wind that speaks to the leaves
Telling stories that no one believes
Stories of love belong to you and to me
Oh, Dindi, if I only had words
I would say all the beautiful things that I see
When you're with me
Oh my Dindi
Oh Dindi, like the song of the wind in the trees
That's how my heart is singing, Dindi
Happy Dindi
When you're with me
I love you more each day
Yes I do, yes I do
I'd let you go away
If you take me with you
Don't you know, Dindi
I'd be running and searching for you
Like a river that can't find the sea
That would be me without you, my Dindi
Can't find the sea
That would be me
Without you, Dindi
Like a river that can't find the sea
That would be me without you, my Dindi
Tina Sweeney
The pure joy of finding a song I've never heard before he melts my heart
Patricia Otoole
Me too I thought I heard them all wrong
Eduardo Rivas Rios
The best is the original. Jobim and Gal Costa.
Harry Arthur
Marvelous!
guyco10
I recommend you listen to Jon Lucien's version as well. Also very captivating!
A J
My mom loved this album with the amazing Jobim , I’ve loved Frank since I was a very young child. I’m 62 and he’s had a place in my heart throughout it all ❤
Bob Purpura
I heard this song on Siriusly Sinatra XM in my car for the first time a few weeks ago and I couldn't wait to look it up. Why was he saying Jindji when my radio says Dindi I wondered? But the song was so mesmerizing I had to learn about it and couldn't wait to look it up when I got home. Then I learn about the pronunciation of her name. I think I fell in love with her like Frank did, and I have listened to this song dozens of times since that first time. So beautiful...
Arthur Jackson
perfect
Viw from the Sky
Dindi is Portuguese pronunciation
Clara Montefalcon
because this song is a version of a Brazilian song, where the sound of "d" in some regions is pronounced like "j". probably Sinatra wanted to keep that aspect.