Kickstarter, the famous website running fundraisings, is hosting a campaign launched by the director of a possible documentary about Frank Zappa, the Italian-American rock musician who died in 1993. The campaign would fund the film’s production and the highest-level reward is the Los Angeles home where Zappa lived for 25 years until his death. Because the house’s $9 million price tag exceeds the site’s maximum reward tier value, the campaign instructs interested supporters to bid on it on eBay.
Zappa was born in Baltimore, Maryland. His mother, Rose Marie, was of Italian from Naples and Sicily and French ancestry; his father, Francis Vincent Zappa, was an immigrant from Partinico, Sicily, with Greek and Arab ancestry. Zappa, the eldest of four children, was raised in an Italian-American household where Italian was spoken often by his grandparents. The family moved often because his father, a chemist and mathematician, worked in the defense industry.
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