His voice was his, yet echoed his father’s just enough to invite a comparison he could never live up to. He was talented and tenacious, but Frank Sinatra Jr. was always burdened with that magical name.
Sinatra Jr. died Wednesday while on tour in Florida of cardiac arrest, his family said in a statement to The Associated Press. He was 72 and had not been ill, his family said.
Spending a lifetime belting out the tunes made famous by his father, Sinatra borrowed on the legend, resigned, it seemed, to endure in his old man’s larger-than-life shadow.
He had the voice, the glint in his eye, he even almost had the look, but more than anything else, he had the famous father.
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