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American singer-songwriter (born 1940)

Nancy Sandra Sinatra (born June 8, 1940) is an American singer-songwriter, actress, film producer and author. She is the elder daughter of Frank Sinatra and Nancy Sinatra (née Barbato) and is known for her 1965 signature hit "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'".

Nancy Sinatra began her career as a singer in November 1957 with an appearance on her father's ABC television variety series The Frank Sinatra Show but initially achieved success only in Europe and Japan. In early 1966 she had a transatlantic number-one hit with "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'". 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. The song was written by Lee Hazlewood, who wrote and produced most of her hits and sang with her on several duets. As with all of Sinatra's 1960s hits, "Boots" featured Billy Strange as arranger and conductor.

Between early 1966 and early 1968, Sinatra charted on Billboard's Hot 100 with 14 titles, 10 of which reached the Top 40. In addition to "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'", defining recordings during this period include "Sugar Town", "Love Eyes", the transatlantic 1967 number one "Somethin' Stupid" (a duet with her father), two versions of the title song from the James Bond film You Only Live Twice (1967), several collaborations with Lee Hazlewood – including "Summer Wine", "Jackson", "Lady Bird" and "Some Velvet Morning" – and a non-single 1966 cover of the Cher hit "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)", which features in the opening credits of Quentin Tarantino's 2003 film Kill Bill Volume 1. In 1971 Sinatra and Hazlewood achieved their first collaborative success in the UK singles chart with the no. 2 hit "Did You Ever?", and the 2005 UK no. 3 hit by Audio Bullys, "Shot You Down", sampled Sinatra's version of "Bang Bang".

Nancy Sinatra will always be associated first with her big hit, "These Boots Were Made for Walkin'," but did you know she's continued to put out music in the many years since the song was released? The daughter of legend Frank Sinatra, Nancy's music career spans decades, and she has also spent time as an actor, a mother, a grandmother, a writer, and a radio host. She's committed to preserving the legacy of her father—and more recently, her daughters have helped her keep her own music alive.

Nancy is the oldest of Frank's three children with his first wife, Nancy Barbato. She has a younger brother, Frank Jr., and a younger sister, Tina. Nancy first came into the spotlight appearing alongside her father on one of his television specials, but she found fame of her own in the mid-'60s—especially after she gave herself a Swinging Sixties makeover with blonde hair, mini skirts, and go-go boots. "I was just about to go through a divorce," she told The Independent in 2021. "I was 24 years old and in shock and I didn’t really know who I was. I was determined to change my image.”

And when she turned over a new leaf, her career took off from there. Read on to learn more about Nancy's music and her life today.

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Nancy Sinatra was thrilled to see the back of Donald Trump last week – even as his getaway helicopter ascended to her father’s most famous tune. “It doesn’t matter,” the singer says, that the disgraced former president used “My Way” as his swansong. “It’s not my favourite; it wasn’t my dad’s either. It’s a terrible song.” Trump had tried to co-opt it since the beginning, she adds; that move was nothing new. But perhaps the song was, in a way, prophetic. “When he first used it I remember saying ‘and now the end is near’ is a perfect, perfect first line for him,” says Sinatra. “It took a little longer than I’d hoped – but it ended.” 

But enough airtime for him now. Sinatra, whose Twitter feed is a constant stream of enthusiasm for the Democrats and especially Kamala Harris, is taping Biden’s latest speech as she talks from her home in Palm Springs, her coiffed blonde mane as much a Californian mainstay as the flush of pink bougainvillea that’s just about visible out of the window. She wants the new president to first address “the land that’s been given away to oil companies” in America, as well as “racial injustice”. 

“I mean, that just boils my blood,” she says. “It was time for Black Lives Matter. I almost was part of the demonstrations, but at my age it’s difficult for me to march like that.”

Sinatra is 80 now, and this year begins with a flurry of reissues on the hip label Light in the Attic to celebrate her career, starting with a compilation, Start Walkin’. She’s put out old music many times before, but this campaign invites her musical legacy to be cast in a new light – there’s a sense that she hasn’t been given the same recognition as the legends in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. This is Nancy Sinatra, after all, who shimmied onto the global stage with a song about traipsing over men in a pair of boots, a flush of female empowerment that raised hemlines across Amer