Background
Moon Zappa was born in New York City, the eldest child of Gail (née Sloatman) and musician Frank Zappa. Zappa"s father was of Sicilian, Greek-Arab, and French ancestry, and her mother is of French, Irish, and mostly Danish ancestry.
Moon Zappa was born in New York City, the eldest child of Gail (née Sloatman) and musician Frank Zappa. Zappa"s father was of Sicilian, Greek-Arab, and French ancestry, and her mother is of French, Irish, and mostly Danish ancestry.
Zappa attended Oakwood School in North Hollywood, California.
The song featured Moon Zappa delivering a monologue in "valleyspeak", a collection of slang terms popular with teenage girls in the San Fernando Valley, Los Los Angeles "Valley Girl" was Frank Zappa"s biggest hit in the United States, and popularized phrases from the lyric such as "grody to the max" and "gag me with a spoon". The song appeared on her father"s 1982 album Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch.
As a child, she acted in the television series CHiPs, The Facts of Life, and the film Nightmares.
As an adult she has worked as a stand-up comic, magazine writer, and actress, appearing in the films National Lampoon"s European Vacation and Spirit of "76, the television sitcom Normal Life, and The Super Mario Brothers Super Show. Most recently, she was the voice of Mistress
Lamber on FOX Broadcasting"s Animation Domination High-Def series High School United States of America!. In 2000 she appeared as guest vocalist on Kip Winger"s third solo album "Songs from the Ocean Floor".
She is the author of the novel America, the Beautiful, published in 2001.
She has also written for The New York Times.