Mia Zapata
Mia Zapata was born in Louisville, Kentucky, United States on August 25th, 1965 and is the Punk Singer. At the age of 27, Mia Zapata biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Mia Katherine Zapata (August 25, 1965 – July 7, 1993) was an American musician who was lead singer for the Seattle punk band The Gits.
Zapata was murdered in 1993 while walking home from a music venue after receiving laud in the nascent grunge scene.
The murder went unsolved for a decade before her killer, Jesus Mezquia, was arrested and sentenced to 36 years in jail.
Life and career
Mia Zapata was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and attended high school at Presentation Academy. Zapata learned how to play the guitar and piano by age nine and was inspired by punk rock, jazz, blues, and R&B artists like Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Jimmy Reed, Hank Williams, and Sam Cooke.
Zapata began studying at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, as a liberal arts scholar in 1984. She and three others formed the punk rock band The Gits in September 1986. The band migrated to Seattle, Washington, in 1989. Zapata started working at a local bar, and the four band members moved into "The Rathouse," a haunted house. From 1990 to 1991, the band released a series of well-received singles on local independent record labels. The Gits were playing shows with their friends' band, 7 Year Bitch, as they made a name for themselves in the local music scene. The band's debut album, Frenching the Bully, was released in 1992. The band's fame in Seattle soared as a result of their debut in the grunge scene before the band's second and final album, Enter: The Conquering Chicken, was released in 1993.
Zapata came from an upper class family but was often without basic services. "Mia [lived] in two different cultures," her father referred to it: She lived on two sides of the street: one on the straight, the other on the street, with parochial schools, an affluent family, and tennis clubs. However, material things didn't mean anything to her as she crossed the street." Zapata's music often led to a lack of financial stability, but Valerie Agnew describes Mia as "commanded with respect and admiration immediately."
Zapata was extremely connected to her people. "Mia [was] the center of several social circles; a magneto who drew all sorts of people together who may never have met," Peter Sheehy recalls. On his way to her funeral, Zapata's father was lost, and he remembers many people carrying yellow roses: the admission ticket to her funeral. Zapata was "obviously gifted" by judge Sharon Armstrong, who was "struck by how closely Zapata had connected to so many people," she said during her killer's trial.