The Man Who Sold a Sword and the Son Who Sold a Knife

 81 Years Ago Today He Was Invented by His Mother

Saturday 21st of December 1940
Musician and composer Frank Vincent Zappa known from the Mothers of Invention is born in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

He is the third child of Mary Vincent Zappa and Frances Zappa (born June 10, 1909) an American opera singer and actress, known for: Dances With Boys, The Doors, and most recently, The Fret. He is best known for his role in Fuzzy, an opera about the life with dolphins (Daphne Proulx), which he co-authored with his American opera-loving father, George Zappa. Born in Warsaw, Poland, in October 1935, Zappa received the Academy Award nomination for Best American Opera for the Best Musical in the 1920s. In 1927, he became a member of the Royal Orchestra of Poland's National Poetry Association in Warsaw and published the book, The Man Who Sold a Sword; the Son who Sold a Knife. In 1936 Zappa and his brother, Robert, established the Family Piano Players Association (FMPA), a nonprofit foundation run by the Zappa clan to address the growing concerns of a younger generation of music lovers and to help them develop and adopt music while at the same time preserving his legacy of opera and music in order to foster more youthful creativity. Throughout this time he has performed in numerous orchestras and numerous operatic performances, as noted below.