Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa was an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and bandleader. His work is characterized by nonconformity, free-form improvisation, sound experiments, musical virtuosity, and satire of American culture. Zappa composed rock, pop, jazz, jazz fusion, orchestral and musique concrète works. He is considered one of the most innovative and stylistically diverse rock musicians of his era.