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Adelaide Gail Zappa (née Sloatman; January 1, 1945 – October 7, 2015) was the wife of musician and composer Frank Zappa and the trustee of the Zappa Family Trust. They met in Los Angeles in 1966 and married while she was pregnant with their first child, Moon, followed by Dweezil, Ahmet and Diva.
Aug 17, 2024 · Moon Unit Zappa details her difficult relationship with her dad, rock legend Frank Zappa, and her mother, Gail Zappa — and her father's final months — in her new memoir 'Earth to Moon'.
- Jeremy Helligar
Sep 10, 2024 · He and his wife Gail were married in 1967 at ages 26 and 21, while Gail was pregnant with Moon Unit. The Zappas remained married until Frank’s death from cancer at age 52, and had four children (Moon Unit, Dweezil, Ahmet, and Diva) to whom they appeared to be exceptionally devoted.
- Fred Moody
Aug 2, 2016 · It’s soundcheck time at the Capitol Theatre, just north of New York, and Dweezil Zappa is leading his band through the songs of his father, Frank. Dweezil, 46, has been regularly performing his...
Aug 9, 2024 · Gail’s vigilance over the estate extended to such an extreme that in 2006, when Dweezil began performing his father’s music as Zappa Plays Zappa — a tribute band that later won a Grammy ...
- Geoff Edgers
Moon Unit Zappa has again opened up about her life growing up with Frank Zappa as her father, saying that everyone in the family had to make sacrifices for him. “In my opinion, we were all given the short end of the stick, [mother] Gail included,” she tells Mojo.
Oct 12, 2015 · Her father, John Sloatman, was a nuclear physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and went on to direct research projects for the U.S. military. She encountered Zappa when she was a...
