In a music career that spanned nearly 30 years Frank Zappa produced some 60 albums with Freak Out with Mother of Invention being his first release in 1966. Was Zappa's style Jazz or Rock ? His musical scores, most of which he composed himself were an artistic flare of avant-garde mixture. It was somewhere in between Rock, Hard Rock, Jazz, Big Band, Doo Wop, and modern classical with a bit of everything else tossed in for good measure. The sounds of Frank Zappa might best be described as an orgy of styles which might best describe the man and the lyrics which often might be termed pornography for the ears. In fact the Zappameister did do a six month stint in the cellars of moral detention for a "conspiracy to commit pornography charge". He was charged after taking a payment from undercover cops who posed as guys looking for some dirty sound footage for a stag party. Love him or hate him, Zappa was a classic act on and off stage and carried a grimoire or occult-like type personality well. The spontaneity of his actions and is ability to improvise could have you believe that he had a factory of personalities in the closets of his freak mind willing to fill the voids of his shortcomings. He would later in life find himself defending his lyrics against what he believed to be extortionist who were using censorship has a means of exploiting the artist. If you liked Frank Zappa when he was living than you likely continue to like him now. He was charismatic enough to influence that type of cult mentality in the public. If you didn't know who Zappa was before he died or until now then most likely listening to his music will have you coming back for more.

The history of music will keep him alive in legacy.

• Born in Baltimore - 1940
• Full name - Frank Vincent Zappa
• Early Influences - living near a mustard gas factory and seeing gas masks in the house, germs and war
• Early Influences - Varese, Webern, Stravinski,
• Career - base player, electric guitarist, drummer, vocalist, music composer, film producer, designer
• Early Bands - The Ramblers - The Black outs - The Soots with Captain Beefheart - The Muthers
• Touring Band - Mothers of Invention
• Debut Album - Freak Out 1966.
• First wife - Kathrin J. "Kay" Sherman
• Second wife and mother to four Zappa children - Adelaide Gail Sloatman (Zappa)
• Children - Moon Unit, Diva, Dweezil, Ahmet
• The producer - begins recording other artist under labels Bizarre Records and Straight Records
• The Mothers of Invention fold in 1969
• Zappa goes with a back up band called the The Mothers
• Seriously hurt in a stage accident in London in 1971 leaving him with one leg shorter than the other leading him to write Zombie Wolf and Dancin Fool
• The Mothers find a new hen house
• The producer begins recording under the label DiscReet Records
• Reaches his apogee with chart toppers in the mid 1970's
• Zappa goes solo in the late 1970's
• Film producer - Baby Snakes - A movie about people who do stuff that isn't normal - is released 1979 but fails to draw large audiences.
• Goes it alone has recording label Barking Pumpkin Records in a home based studio called UMRK or Utilility Muffin Research Kitchen.
• The 1980's see him performing live with symphony orchestras which he later replicates with his use of a synclavier which is an electronic keyboard synthesizer capable of dubbing almost any instrument sound or even entire musical sections such as woodwinds or percussions. 
• Last tour 1988
• 1990 he is diagnosed with having prostate cancer

Frank Vincent Zappa passes away in 1993 at home with his wife and four children at his side.