Singer and amateur Frank Sinatra’s son dies at the age 72

Frank Sinatra Jr., the son of acclaimed accompanist and amateur Frank Sinatra who carved out his own career as
a accompanist and conductor, died on Wednesday at age 72, his sister said.

“The Sinatra ancestors ache the abortive casual of their son, brother, father, uncle, Frank Sinatra, Jr. of cardiac arrest while on bout in Daytona, Florida,” his sister, Nancy Sinatra, said on her Facebook page. “Sleep warm, Frankie.”

Sinatra was set to accomplish several of his father’s songs at the Peabody Amphitheater in Daytona Beach on Wednesday night, but the accident was canceled if the accompanist fell ill, the amphitheater said in a annual on Facebook.

“Frank Sinatra Jr. has anesthetized away,” it said. “Our adulation to his ancestors and friends.”

At the age of 19, a accumulation of men kidnapped Sinatra at gunpoint in 1963 from a Lake Tahoe bank and captivated him bound until his ancestor paid a $240,000 ransom. The accumulation was after arrested and the bribe recovered.

Sinatra was just starting his career in music at the time and was kidnapped. His career never accomplished the starry heights of the ancient Sinatra, but he did act as aqueduct and agreeable administrator in the final years of his father’s career.

Sinatra Jr. was in Daytona Beach on Wednesday and set to accomplish his appearance “Sinatra Sings Sinatra,” which would accept included his renditions of his father’s greatest hits as able-bodied as contiguous recollections of “Ol’ Blue Eyes.”

The Daytona Beach News-Journal appear that he died at the Halifax Health Medical Center. Sinatra Jr. told the bi-weekly afresh that he never acquainted abashed not extensive his father’s akin of fame.

“I anticipate in my generation, if I came forth in the aboriginal ’60s, the blazon of music that was in faddy in association in those canicule had confused on to addition affectionate of music,” he told the News-Journal. “I was aggravating to advertise antiques in a avant-garde apparatus store.”

As annual of his afterlife spread, entertainers took to amusing media to pay their respects.

“I am acutely afflicted to apprehend of the casual of Frank Sinatra Jr and forward my accord to (sisters) Tina and Nancy and the Sinatra family,” accompanist Tony Bennett said on his Twitter account.

Frank Sinatra Sr died of a affection advance in 1998