Born Francis Vincent Zappa, 21 December 1940, in Baltimore, Maryland, USA; died 4 December 1993. FZ was a composer, songwriter, guitarist, record producer and film director who wrote rock, jazz, electronic, orchestral, and musique concrete works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. Zappa produced almost all of the 94 albums he released with the band The Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist. Zappa was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 and received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997.
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