Summary

Frank Zappa Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 ? December 4, 1993) was an American composer, singer-songwriter, electric guitarist, record producer and film director In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concr�te 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 the band The Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist While in his teens, he acquired a taste for percussion-based avant-garde composers such as Edgard Var�se and 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 plugging new film Baby Snakes