Financial professional Samuel Brice Hall has spent more than a decade as a public accountant working with “Big Four” and middle market firms. Now director of investor relations with an Atlanta-based private equity firm, Samuel Brice Hall loves music, specifically jazz predating 1965. One of his favorite musicians is Frank Sinatra.
Frank Sinatra was an American singer, actor, and film producer. Having started out as a saloon singer in the early 20th century, he rose to become one of the most recognizable musical figures of his era, rivaling the likes of Elvis Presley and the Beatles. Born on Dec. 12, 1915, in Hoboken, New Jersey, to Italian immigrants Martin (a firefighter) and Natalie Sinatra (an amateur singer), Sinatra first started singing after his father gave him a ukulele, which he loved to play while singing. As a teenager, he dropped out of school and started singing in small clubs, eventually earning his big break with the Hoboken Four on the talent radio show “Major Bowes and his Amateur Hour.” He got a job working with Swing Era bandleader Harry James at a radio station before later joining Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra, the point at which his career truly took off. He sang with the band from 1940 to 1942, and then launched his solo career. One of the most popular vocalists of the Swing Era, Sinatra’s musical prowess won him the adoration of untold numbers of fans, mostly young women nicknamed “bobby-soxers.” He continued to sing all the way into the 1950s, producing numerous Top Ten albums and winning several awards, but he eventually suffered a vocal cord hemorrhage. While this did slow him down, it did not take him out. Sinatra continued to release musical hits into the 1980s, winning more than 10 Grammy Awards and selling millions of records. Some of his hits include “My Way,” “Strangers in the Night,” “Something Stupid,” “The Way You Look Tonight,” and “Luck Be a Lady.” He died in May 1998 at the age of 83.
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AuthorIn 2011, Mr. Hall relocated to Atlanta, Georgia, and accepted an appointment as the director of investor relations at Piedmont Private Equity, where he remains. ArchivesCategories
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