Frank Vincent Zappa (1940 - 1993)

Born 21 Dec 1940 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Ancestors

Husband of Adelaide Gail (Sloatman) Zappa — married 21 Sep 1967 in New York, New York, USA

Died 4 Dec 1993 at age 52 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA

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Biography

Frank Vincent Zappa was born 21 Dec 1940, in Baltimore, Maryland. His parents were Frank Zappa and Rose Marie Colimore. He first married Kay Sherman in 1960; they divorced in 1964). He second married Adelaide Gail Sloatman 21 Sep 1967, in New York, New York. Frank Vincent Zappa PAssed away 4 Dec 1993, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, and he is interred in the Westwood Memorial Park there.^[1][2][3]

1st Marriage

Name: Frank V Zappa

Gender: Male

Birth Year: abt 1940

Age: 20

Marriage Date: 28 Dec 1960

Marriage Place: San Bernardino, California, USA

Spouse Name: Kathryn J Sherman

Spouse Age: 21^[4][5][6]

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From Wikipedia

Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, bandleader, songwriter, composer, recording engineer, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa composed rock, jazz, and classical orchestral works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. Zappa produced almost all of the more than 60 albums he released with his band, The Mothers of Invention, and as a solo artist. While in his teens, he acquired a taste for 20th-century classical composers such as Edgard Varèse, Igor Stravinsky, and Anton Webern along with 1950s rhythm and blues music. He began writing classical music in high school, while at the same time playing drums in rhythm and blues bands; he later switched to electric guitar.

Zappa was a self-taught composer and performer, and his diverse musical influences led him to create music that was often difficult to categorize. His 1966 debut album with The Mothers of Invention, Freak Out!, combined songs in conventional rock and roll format with collective improvisations and studio-generated sound collages. His later albums shared this eclectic and experimental approach, irrespective of whether the fundamental format was rock, jazz or classical. His lyrics—often humorously—reflected his iconoclastic view of established social and political processes, structures and movements. He was a strident critic of mainstream education and organized religion, and a forthright and passionate advocate for freedom of speech, self-education, political participation and the abolition of censorship.

He was a highly productive and prolific artist and gained widespread critical acclaim. He had some commercial success, particularly in Europe, and worked as an independent artist for most of his career. He also remains a major influence on musicians and composers. Zappa was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 and received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997. Zappa was married to Kathryn J. "Kay" Sherman from 1960 to 1964. In 1967, he married Adelaide Gail Sloatman, with whom he remained until his death from prostate cancer in 1993. They had four children: Moon, Dweezil, Ahmet and Diva. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him at No. 71 on its list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time", and in 2011 at No. 22 on its list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1141/frank-zappa
2. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/99F6-J8P
3. ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/28516983/person/372167036508/facts
4. ↑ State of California. California Marriage Index, 1960-1985. Microfiche. Center for Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, California.
5. ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/2594433:1144?ssrc=pt&tid=28516983&pid=372167036508
6. ↑ "California Marriage Index, 1960-1985," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V624-6GN : 27 November 2014), Frank V Zappa and Kathryn J Sherman, 28 Dec 1960; from "California, Marriage Index, 1960-1985," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2007); citing San Bernardino, California, Center of Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento.
7. ↑ Frank Zappa Wikipedia page

See also:

• "California Death Index, 1940-1997," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VGPB-G2H : 26 November 2014), Frank Vincent Zappa, 04 Dec 1993; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento.
• "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JG3R-5TR : 19 May 2014), F V Zappa, Dec 1993; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
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