Francis Albert -Frank- Sinatra (December 12; 1915 May 14; 1998) was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey; Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s; being the idol of the -bobby soxers-. His professional career had stalled by the 1950s; but it was reborn in 1954 after he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. My Way is a song with lyrics written by Paul Anka and popularized by Frank Sinatra. The melody is based on a French song "Comme d'habitude" composed by Claude Franois and Jacques Revaux. Anka's English lyrics are unrelated to the original French by Claude Franois and Gilles Thibaut and Anka is credited as a co-composer of "My Way" because he largely re-wrote the lyrics of the song.Francis Albert -Frank- Sinatra (December 12; 1915 May 14; 1998) was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey; Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s; being the idol of the -bobby soxers-. His professional career had stalled by the 1950s; but it was reborn.