Famous crooner Frank Sinatra writes a Christmas dedication for a women's magazine in Rio de Janeiro.
- Old photograph of Frank Sinatra, with a dedication from the American star to Jornal Das Moças.
- In English.
- ~ 18cm x 23.5cm.
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, undated.
- Good condition of conservation.
- Unique piece.
Christmas Greetings
to the Girls' Newspaper
Frank Sinatra
On the back, stamped
Frank Sinatra
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Frank Sinatra (1915 - 1998) was one of the most important figures in popular music of the last century, along with Elvis Presley and the Beatles. His career spanned 60 years, as a singer, actor and on television.
As a singer, his musical hits include classics such as Fly Me to the Moon, My Way and New York, New York. Sinatra particularly liked bossa nova and was a great admirer of Tom Jobim; they sang Girl from Ipanema together. He gave a historic concert in Brazil, in a packed Maracanã stadium with 170,000 people, in 1980. Frank Sinatra also appeared in more than fifty films, including From Here to Eternity (1953), which earned him an Oscar for best actor. With an intense political involvement in the United States, Sinatra was accused in the early 1950s of being a member of the mafia and organized crime.
Jornal das Moças was a women's periodical published in the city of Rio de Janeiro, distributed in the capitals of the entire country and in the main cities of the interior, which circulated in Brazil between 1914 and 1965. It had an average of 75 pages with texts and illustrations, dealing with subjects such as fashion, cinema, culinary recipes, cosmetics, etc.
"Luiz Fernandes (famous caricaturist of Carmen Miranda), was a Brazilian who sent these photos from the United States to be published in the magazine, as other artists did" says Ricardo Lessa Bastos, journalist.
Produced at the beginning of his career, Frank Sinatra's beautiful and great writing, and the reference to Christmas, for which Sinatra was a symbol, make this document a special piece in any collection.
