Musician Frank Zappa
Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940, Baltimore - December 4, 1993, Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles) was a composer, guitarist, recording producer and film director.
In a career spanning more than 30 years, his musical work has been extended to rock, fusion, jazz, electronic music, classical music and classical music.
He also directed feature films and video clips and designed covers of his albums. Zappa produced almost all of his 60 albums that he released with the band Mothers of Invention, a group that accompanied him for a good part of his career and had his training changed many times, and as a solo artist.
He died at 52 years of age.
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As a teenager, he acquired a taste for percussion-based avant-garde composers such as Edgard Varèse and also for rhythm and blues from the 1950s. Zappa began writing classical music in high school at the same time as drumming in bands Of rhythm and blues - he switched to guitar later. Composer and performer of his own music, with diverse influences, his work is practically impossible to be categorized. His debut album with the Mothers of Invention, Freak Out !, combined songs in the conventional rock 'n' roll format with collective improvisations and studio collages. His latest albums also contained this eclectic and experimental approach, regardless of whether the key format is rock, jazz or classical. He wrote the lyrics of all his songs, which - often humorously -
He was a great critic of the method of education and of religions, and a strong advocate of freedom of expression, self-education and the abolition of censorship.
Zappa was a highly productive and prolific artist and gained critical acclaim. Many of his albums are considered essential in the history of rock and jazz. He is considered one of the most original guitarists of his time. He also remains a major influence for musicians and composers. He achieved some musical success, particularly in Europe, and for most of his career he worked as an independent artist. Postpone, Zappa was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 and won a Grammy Award.
He had four children: Moon Unit, Dweezil, Ahmet Emuukha Rodan and Diva Thin Muffin Pigeen. DEATH Frank Zappa died as a result of prostate cancer on December 4, 1993, at his home, surrounded by his wife and children. At a private ceremony the next day, Zappa was buried in an unmarked grave at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Westwood, Los Angeles. On Monday, December 6, his family publicly announced that "Composer Frank Zappa went to his last tour just before 18:00 on Saturday