America the Beautiful by Moon Unit Zappa

She is the writer of the novel America, the Beautiful, publicized in 2001, and articles in major magazines. She later created another recording titled ' My Mother Is a Space Cadet', with guitar accompaniment by her brother Dweezil.Īs a kid, she acted in the tv series CHiPs, The Facts of Life, and the film Nightmares. The tune appeared on her father's 1982 album Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch.

Beside 'Dancin' Fool', ' Valley Girl' was Frank Zappa's largest hit in the United States, and popularized expressions such as 'grody to the max' and 'gag me with a spoon'. In the mid-1980s, Moon and her brother Dweezil were constant guest VJs on MTV. The song presented Moon Zappa delivering a monologue in 'valleyspeak', a collection of slang terms loved by teenage girls in the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles. By the age of 18, Moon Unit was in therapy and has since frequently complained of the problems created by being the offspring of a famous mother or father.Īside from the novelty of her and her siblings' names, she first came to public attention in 1982, at the age of fourteen, as a vocalist on her father's Top 40 hit single, ' Valley Girl'. Zappa attended Oakwood School in North Hollywood, California.When her father Frank asked her (12-year-old daughter) whether she would like a diaphragm and her own flat to have sex with boys, it was just one more alternative situation for a child named after an astronomical measurement. Her father was of Sicilian, Greek-Arab, and French ancestry, and her mother is of French, Irish, and mostly Danish ancestry. Moon got her middle name from the concept that her birth made parents Frank Zappa and Gail Zappa a 'family unit'.She has three younger siblings, Dweezil, Ahmet, and Diva Muffin.

Moon Zappa was born on Septemin New York City, the eldest daughter of Gail Zappa and performer Frank Zappa.

America the Beautiful by Moon Unit Zappa