Frank Zappa
Frank Vincent Zappa[nb 1] (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) wis an American muisicker, sangwriter, componer, guitarist, record producer, actor an filmmakker. In a career spannin mair nor 30 years, Zappa componed rock, jazz, jazz fusion, orchestral an musique concrète wirks, and produced awmaist aw o the 60-plus albums that he released wi his baund the Mothers of Invention an as a solo airtist. He an aa directit featur-lenth films an muisic videos, an designed album covers.
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 Zappa performing in Ekeberghallen, Oslo, on Januar 16, 1977 | |
| Born | Frank Vincent Zappa 21 December 1940 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
| Dee'd | 4 December 1993 (aged 52) Los Angeles, Californie, U.S. |
Cause o daith | Prostate cancer |
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| Years active | 1955–93 |
Poleetical pairty | Independent |
| Hauf-marrae(s) | Kay Sherman (m. 1960–1964) Adelaide Gail Sloatman (m. 1967–1993) |
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| Oreigin | Los Angeles, Californie, U.S. |
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- ↑ a b c Rosenberg, Stuart (2009). Rock and Roll and the American Landscape: The Birth of an Industry and the Expansion of the Popular Culture, 1955-1969. iUniverse. p. 179. ISBN 978-1-4401-6458-3.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- ↑ Landy, Leigh (1994). Experimental Music Notebooks. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-3-7186-5554-0.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- ↑ "Comedy rock". Allmusic.
- ↑ Greene, Doyle (2016). Rock, Counterculture and the Avant-Garde, 1966–1970: How the Beatles, Frank Zappa and the Velvet Underground Defined an Era. McFarland. p. 182. ISBN 978-1-4766-2403-7.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- ↑ Zappa 1989, p. 15.