Nancy Sandra Sinatra [ 4 ] born June 8, [ 5 ] is an American singer-songwriter, actress, film producer and author. Nancy Sinatra began her career as a singer in November with an appearance on her father's ABC television variety series The Frank Sinatra Show but initially achieved success only in Europe and Japan.
A TV promo clip from the era features Sinatra in high boots, accompanied by colorfully dressed go-go dancers , in what is now considered an iconic Swinging Sixties look. As with all of Sinatra's s hits, "Boots" featured Billy Strange as arranger and conductor. Between early and early , Sinatra charted on Billboard' s Hot with 14 titles, 10 of which reached the Top In Sinatra and Hazlewood achieved their first collaborative success in the UK singles chart with the no.
Between and , Sinatra appeared in several feature films, co-starring with Peter Fonda in Roger Corman 's biker-gang movie The Wild Angels and alongside Elvis Presley in the musical drama Speedway Frank and Nancy Sinatra played a fictional father and daughter in the comedy Marriage on the Rocks.
She is the eldest of the three children born to Frank Sinatra and his first wife, Nancy Barbato. Both of her parents were of Italian ancestry. They later moved again to Toluca Lake, California , for her father's Hollywood career. There she spent many years in piano , dance and dramatic performance lessons, and undertook months of voice lessons.
Sinatra began to study music, dancing and voice at UCLA in the late s, but she dropped out after one year. That same year, she began a five-year marriage to Tommy Sands. Sinatra was signed to her father's label, Reprise Records , in Her first single, "Cuff Links and a Tie Clip," went largely unnoticed. However, subsequent singles charted in Europe and Japan. By , without a hit in the United States , she was on the verge of being dropped by the label.
