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Birth name: Frank Vincent Zappa. Born: December 21, 1940 Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Died: December 4, 1993 Laurel Canyon, California, USA. (prostate cancer). Height: 6' (1.83 m). Spouse(s): -Gail Zappa (21 September 1967 - 4 December 1993) (his death) they have four children. -Kay Sherman (28 December 1960 - 1964) (divorced). Frank Zappa biography (bio): In his more than 30-year long career, Frank Zappa established himself as a prolific and distinctive musician-composer-band leader. Zappa worked in almost every musical genre and wrote music for rock bands, jazz ensembles, synthesizers and symphony orchestra, as well as radiophonic works constructed from pre-recorded, synthesized or sampled sources. Although he only occasionally achieved major commercial success — his first gold album award was Apostrophe (') in 1974 — he maintained a highly productive career that encompassed composing, recording, touring, producing and merchandising his own and others' music. Zappa self-produced almost every one of the more than sixty albums he released with the Mothers of Invention or as a solo artist (plus several posthumous releases). He amassed an enormous archive consisting of hundreds of live recordings spanning almost all of his performing career. He received multiple Grammy nominations and won a Grammy award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 1987 for the album Jazz From Hell. In addition to his music recordings, he created feature-length and short films, music videos, graphic art, and album covers. Politically, Zappa was a self-proclaimed "practical conservative", an avowed supporter of capitalism and independent business. He was also a strident critic of mainstream education and organized religion, and he repeatedly lampooned the emerging "born-again" Christian movement in songs. Zappa was also known for his satire on the 1960s hippie movement, particularly in the 1968 album We're Only in It for the Money. Zappa was a forthright and passionate advocate for freedom of speech and the abolition of censorship, and his work embodied his skeptical view of established political processes and structures. Zappa was married twice, once to Kathryn "Kay" Sherman (1960–1964; no children), and then in 1967 to Adelaide Gail Sloatman, with whom he remained until his death in December 1993 of prostate cancer. They had four children: Moon Unit, Dweezil, Ahmet Emuukha Rodan and Diva Thin Muffin Pigeen. Gail Zappa handles the businesses of her late husband under the company name the Zappa Family Trust. |
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