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Moon Unit Zappa was only 14 years old when she helped her father, legendary art rock god Frank Zappa, accomplish something he hadn’t done before. Their 1982 collaboration, ...
To see the recording of this interview with Moon Zappa, sign up here for the Sept. 20 episode of Bookish, the Southern California News Group’s virtual program on authors.
Moon Unit Zappa remembers the moment she became the voice of a generation. It was a school night in 1982 when musician Frank Zappa jostled his 13-year-old daughter awake. Frank needed her in the ...
One night in 1979, 11-year-old Moon Unit Zappa falls asleep to the sound of her parents arguing. They argue plenty, so this isn’t unusual. Her father, Frank, is a musician and composer with a ...
Moon Unit Zappa and Frank Zappa sit for an interview with MTV in New York in 1982. Frank’s hit song “Valley Girl” featured his then-14-year-old daughter, Moon. (Gary Gershoff / Getty Images) ...
Zappa’s father died of cancer at 52, in 1993, after which her mother took control of his estate. When she died, in 2015, she cut Moon and one of her brothers out of the family business.They ...
Moon Unit Zappa, actor, singer and author of a new memoir “Earth to Moon,” joins Washington Post national arts reporter Geoff Edgers to discuss her upbringing in Hollywood as the child of ...
Moon Unit Zappa will be appearing on Sunday, Oct. 27, hosting a screening of “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” at Cinema Arts Centre, 423 Park Ave., in Huntington. Visit www.cinemartscentre.org ...