Frankie Sabath

Frankie Sabath (born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, 1951) began his musical career as a professional entertainer at age sixteen performing for The Kids From Ponce, a Puerto Rican singing group from the 1960s whose popularity soared through their many television and live appearances at home and abroad.

After three years performing with such producers as Luis Vigoreaux, Tommy Muniz and Paquito Cordero, the group disbanded but three of its members went on as soloists: singer and later photographer, Jose Manuel, the well-known Puerto Rican female vocalist Ednita Nazario, and Sabath himself.

Sabath had a very successful career as a headliner with numerous TV appearances and the release of two hit songs: "Se Te Hizo Tarde" (You're Late) and "Cuando Me Pidas Perdon" (When You Ask For Forgiveness). He decided to move to the United States and made his American debut in 1985, performing at the behest of his friend Ernesto Tarre for the Hispanic-American Queen of the Flowers pageant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Surrounded by his bodyguards and other security staff members, he performed riveting musical interpretations. The audience's response, with over twelve hundred people, spoke for itself. They knew he was more than a singer: he was a performer.

His demure style, so suave and romantic, made him a sensation, enormously popular with Chicago television audiences. In 1986, he founded The Milwaukee Sound: a consortium of selected local musicians, some of them from the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music and including the well-known musician and conductor Carol Klose.

Sabath headlined at Fiesta Mexicana in 1986 with Johnny Rodriguez and in 1987 with Freddy Fender. Now nicknamed Milwaukee's Frank Sinatra, Sabath also appeared at the Rainbow Summer festival sponsored by the Milwaukee Journal and held at the Performing Arts Center.

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