It Started With a Traumatic Birth
Francis Albert Sinatra was born on December 12, 1915, in an apartment (at 415 Monroe Street) in Hoboken, New Jersey. He was the only child of Italian immigrants Natalina “Dolly” Garaventa and Antonino Martino “Marty” Sinatra. He had to be delivered with the aid of forceps, and he came out blue and not breathing.
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Believe it or not, they thought the baby was stillborn and even laid him on the kitchen counter while the doctor attended to his mother. His grandmother went to pick up the newborn, held him under some cold water, and the tiny little Frank wailed out his first-ever tune. The future crooner, by the way, weighed a whopping 13.5 pounds. And those forceps left their mark on Sinatra’s face, leaving him with more than just a physical scar…