Happy Birthday to an Italian musician from Baltimore, Maryland. His mother, Rose Marie (née Colimore), was of Italian and French ancestry; his father, Francis Vincent Zappa, was an immigrant from Partinico, Sicily with Greek and Arab ancestry. Zappa, the eldest of four children, was raised in an Italian-American household where Italian was spoken often by his grandparents. The family moved often because his father, a chemist and mathematician, worked in the defense industry. After a time in Florida in the 1940s, the family returned to Maryland, where Zappas father worked at the Edgewood Arsenal chemical warfare facility of the Aberdeen Proving Ground. Due to their homes proximity to the arsenal, which stored mustard gas, gas masks were kept in the home in case of an accident.[5] This had a profound effect on Zappa, and references to germs, germ warfare and the defense industry occur throughout his work. https://youtube/watch?v=DmcYTShN4Fk
Posted on: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 14:22:33 +0000
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