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| − | '''Rose Marie Zappa''' ([[Baltimore]], Maryland, 7 June 1912 - Burbank, California, 30 January 2004 <ref> | + | [[Image:YoungFrankRose.jpg|right|none|thumb|500px|Frank Zappa with his mother]] |
| + | '''Rose Marie Zappa''' ([[Baltimore]], Maryland, 7 June 1912 - Burbank, California, 30 January 2004)<ref name="Miles">Barry Miles - [[Frank Zappa: A Biography]]</ref> was Frank Zappa's mother. | ||
==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
| − | She was born in 1912 as Rose Marie Colimore. | + | She was born in 1912 as '''Rose Marie Colimore'''<ref>It is not clear if the family name was the English Colimore while living in [[Italy]] or if that was allocated during the immigration process. Often documents were Anglicised at the point of departure or a name was adopted after arriving in the US.</ref> the tenth of eleven<ref>Several of her siblings died at birth or during infancy - as was often the case at the time.</ref> children born to Charles Louis Colimore and Thereza Fava who had arrived in the USA in the 1890s and, settling in [[Maryland]], ran a restaurant.<ref name="Miles"></ref> Her strict Catholic family objected to her dating the divorced [[Francis Zappa]] so they dated in secret for four years. Her mother eventually relented and agreed to them marrying if they came and lived at the Colimore's family home. They were married on 11 June 1939 and moved into the home on Whittier Avenue<ref name="Miles"></ref>. They had four children: [[Biography|Frank]] (1940-1993), [[Bobby Zappa|Bobby]] (1943-2018), [[Carl Zappa|Carl]] (1948-2020) and [[Patrice Zappa|Patrice]] (1951). |
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| + | ''"On my fifteenth birthday, my mother said she would spend five dollars on me (a lot of money for us then), and asked me what I wanted. I said, "Well, instead of buying me something, why don't you just let me make a long-distance phone call?" (Nobody in our house had ever made a long-distance phone call.)'' <ref name="TRFZB"></ref></blockquote> | ||
She passed away in 2004 at age 91. | She passed away in 2004 at age 91. | ||
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| − | '' | + | '''Are you concerned with the way your mother might react to some of your material?''' |
| − | = | + | '''Frank Zappa''': ''"I know how she reacts. She sticks her fingers in her ears. But I'm not doing what I'm doing in order to gain parental approval."'' |
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| + | - Quoted from: ''[[Frank Zappa: America's Weirdest Rock Star Comes Clean]]'', John Swenson, High Times issue #55, March 1980. | ||
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| + | <blockquote>''"My mother seems to like it if she sees my name in the papers, and if she sees me on TV she thinks it's good -- but she's a devout Catholic, so who can tell what she really thinks about what I do or the things I say?"'' <ref name="TRFZB"> Frank Zappa in ''[[The Real Frank Zappa Book]]''.</ref></blockquote> | ||
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Latest revision as of 11:48, 4 August 2026
Rose Marie Zappa (Baltimore, Maryland, 7 June 1912 - Burbank, California, 30 January 2004)[1] was Frank Zappa's mother.
Biography
She was born in 1912 as Rose Marie Colimore[2] the tenth of eleven[3] children born to Charles Louis Colimore and Thereza Fava who had arrived in the USA in the 1890s and, settling in Maryland, ran a restaurant.[1] Her strict Catholic family objected to her dating the divorced Francis Zappa so they dated in secret for four years. Her mother eventually relented and agreed to them marrying if they came and lived at the Colimore's family home. They were married on 11 June 1939 and moved into the home on Whittier Avenue[1]. They had four children: Frank (1940-1993), Bobby (1943-2018), Carl (1948-2020) and Patrice (1951).
"On my fifteenth birthday, my mother said she would spend five dollars on me (a lot of money for us then), and asked me what I wanted. I said, "Well, instead of buying me something, why don't you just let me make a long-distance phone call?" (Nobody in our house had ever made a long-distance phone call.) [4]
She passed away in 2004 at age 91.
Frank Zappa about his mother
Are you concerned with the way your mother might react to some of your material?
Frank Zappa: "I know how she reacts. She sticks her fingers in her ears. But I'm not doing what I'm doing in order to gain parental approval."
- Quoted from: Frank Zappa: America's Weirdest Rock Star Comes Clean, John Swenson, High Times issue #55, March 1980.
"My mother seems to like it if she sees my name in the papers, and if she sees me on TV she thinks it's good -- but she's a devout Catholic, so who can tell what she really thinks about what I do or the things I say?" [4]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Barry Miles - Frank Zappa: A Biography
- ↑ It is not clear if the family name was the English Colimore while living in Italy or if that was allocated during the immigration process. Often documents were Anglicised at the point of departure or a name was adopted after arriving in the US.
- ↑ Several of her siblings died at birth or during infancy - as was often the case at the time.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Frank Zappa in The Real Frank Zappa Book.
