PERSONAL
Frank Vincent Zappa dikenal sebagai seorang komposer, gitaris, penyanyi dan juga sutradara film. Pria kelahiran Baltimore, Maryland, Amerika Serikat, 21 Desember 1940 itu, dalam masa hidupnya telah merilis lebih dari 60 album, hingga akhir hayatnya pada, 4 Desember 1993. Zappa meninggal akibat kanker prostat dan dimakamkan di Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery di Westwood, California.

KARIR
Pada 1964, dirinya pernah bergabung dengan grup musik rock n roll, Mothers of Invention. Zappa bergabung dengan grup yang beranggota Jimmy Carl Black, Roy Estrada, Davy Coronado dan Ray Hunt, setelah mengantikan Ray Collins, yang sebelumnya keluar dari grup tersebut.

Album-albumnya di antaranya Freak Out!, Absolutely Free, We're Only in It for the Money, Lumpy Gravy, Cruising with Ruben & the Jets, Fillmore East - June 1971, Apostrophe, Zoot Allures, Sheik Yerbouti, Them or Us, Broadway the Hard Way, Ahead of Their Time, dan lain-lain. Sementara untuk penghargaan bermusiknya, seorang penulis Peter Occhiogrosso merilis buku, The Real Frank Zappa Book yang didedikasikan untuk namanya.

DISKOGRAFI
FREAK OUT!
ABSOLUTELY FREE
WE'RE ONLY IN IT FOR THE MONEY
LUMPY GRAVY
CRUISING WITH RUBEN & THE JETS
UNCLE MEAT
HOT RATS
BURNT WEENY SANDWICH
WEASELS RIPPED MY FLESH
CHUNGA'S REVENGE
FILLMORE EAST - JUNE 1971
200 MOTELS
JUST ANOTHER BAND FROM L.A.
WAKA/JAWAKA
THE GRAND WAZOO
OVER-NITE SENSATION
APOSTROPHE (')
ROXY & ELSEWHERE
ONE SIZE FITS ALL
BONGO FURY
ZOOT ALLURES
ZAPPA IN NEW YORK
STUDIO TAN
SLEEP DIRT
SHEIK YERBOUTI
ORCHESTRAL FAVORITES
JOE'S GARAGE
TINSEL TOWN REBELLION
SHUT UP 'N PLAY YER GUITAR
YOU ARE WHAT YOU IS
SHIP ARRIVING TOO LATE TO SAVE A DROWNING WITCH
THE MAN FROM UTOPIA
BABY SNAKES
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, VOL. 1
BOULEZ CONDUCTS ZAPPA: THE PERFECT STRANGER
THEM OR US
THING-FISH
FRANCESCO ZAPPA
THE OLD MASTERS BOX ONE
FRANK ZAPPA MEETS THE MOTHERS OF PREVENTION
DOES HUMOR BELONG IN MUSIC?
THE OLD MASTERS BOX TWO
JAZZ FROM HELL
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, VOL. 2
THE OLD MASTERS BOX THREE
GUITAR
YOU CAN'T DO THAT ON STAGE ANYMORE, VOL. 1
YOU CAN'T DO THAT ON STAGE ANYMORE, VOL. 2
BROADWAY THE HARD WAY
YOU CAN'T DO THAT ON STAGE ANYMORE, VOL. 3
THE BEST BAND YOU NEVER HEARD IN YOUR LIFE
YOU CAN'T DO THAT ON STAGE ANYMORE, VOL. 4
MAKE A JAZZ NOISE HERE
YOU CAN'T DO THAT ON STAGE ANYMORE, VOL. 5
YOU CAN'T DO THAT ON STAGE ANYMORE, VOL. 6
PLAYGROUND PSYCHOTICS
AHEAD OF THEIR TIME
THE YELLOW SHARK
IN UTERO
INCESTICIDE
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