Singer Nancy Sinatra recently opened up to the Daily Mail about her legendary father, the singer and actor Frank Sinatra. “I missed my dad because he was often just a voice on the radio as I was growing up", she revealed.
Surviving the music business was her biggest achievement, she declared. “I had to learn to stand up for myself in a man’s world."
One of Nancy’s biggest hits was These Boots Are Made For Walkin’ which was a massive duet hit for Nancy as performed with its writer Lee Hazelwood in the 1970s.
“Lee Hazelwood said I couldn’t sing it because it was meant for a man. I had to make him see it was something I could do and I proved I was right. I like to think I made it easier for women after me. Madonna name-checked me as someone she admired, and that’s a pretty big compliment."
Her biggest disappointment was not being at her father’s deathbed. “Me and my sister, Tina, were in LA, seven minutes’ drive from the hospital. My father was asking for his kids but no one told us. His road manager was told, his PR was told and my step-brother was told but none of his children. I have never been so upset at any other point in my life. I would love to say I have got over it but I haven’t. All I know is he kept saying: ‘Where are my children?’ He died with his wife by his side.
The singer's most treasured possession was a black leather wallet her father had when he was a child, which she gave to the New York Public Library to mark the centenary of his birth.
“It has his name and address printed on it on – Frank Sinatra, Garden Street, Hoboken, New Jersey. I’ve kept it with me for decades and I didn’t want to give it up. I wake up in the night worrying; it’s so tiny, someone may lose it.”
