Ahmet Zappa is widely known for various reasons but mainly he is a professional American musician. Besides that, he is also involved in acting, writing, publishing, and producing.

The star was welcomed into this world on May 15, 1974, in Los Angeles California. He is the son of popular personalities, Frank Zappa and Gail Zappa.

Net Worth

Ahmet Zappa’s an American artist and has a net worth of 1.5 million dollars and his fortune came from music. After breaking into the music industry through his brother Dweezil, and writing the song “Frogs with Dirty Little Lips” with his father, Today, he is one of the recognized faces in the music industry.

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Ahmet Zappa posting for a selfie. Source: @ahmetzappa

He had given lots of the greatest album hits throughout his career such as Bobby Brown Goes Down, Feel How I need you, Willie the pump, and many more.

Family

Ahmet Zappa is the son of popular musician Frank Zappa and his mother, Gail Zappa. He is the third child of his parents.

His dad Frank is the perfectionist and most hardworking rock star of all time, not only that frak was also known as an orchestral composer, creative filmmaker, producer, businessman, iconoclast, and perceptive political and social commentator.

Zappa shares a great bond with his family member, He has altogether three siblings Moon Unit Zappa, Dweezil Zappa, and Diva Zappa.

Career

He had begun his career as a musician and released numerous albums with his brother Dweezil Zappa. Besides singing, he had also applied his luck in acting and he had done several movies and Tv.shows. He and his brother continue the legacy of his father and decided to put a step into the musical journey.

In late 1990 he featured in The Adam and The Joe show and did a lot of movies in the further years like Ready to Rumble including his brother Dweezil.

His first debut movie was on 1990 Pump Up the Volume as the character name Jaime. Additionally, he hosted the hit TV series 2 Hip 4 Tv Happy Hour, and But Can They Sing? 

Married to Salma Blair

Pump Up the Volume actor Ahmet Zappa married Salma Blair on 2004.

Ahmet dated Salma for a quite long time and decided to convert their relationship into marriage in the year 2004. However, the loving duo could not keep up with one another for a longer period of time and decided to separate.

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Ahmet Zappa’s first wife Slama Blair. Source: Celebmafia.com

After two years of their happily married life, the couple filed for a divorce and broke their relationship.

Is Ahmet Zappa still married?

2 Hip 4 Tv Happy Hour host Ahmet is open about his professional and personal life and openly brags about his accomplishments. After the separation from his first wife, the Actor decided to resettle his family and got married to Shanna Muldoon in 2010.

The loving duo is still together and continuing their marriage relationships and already expanded their family from Two to Four.

Children

Ready to Rumble actor Ahmet has done two marriages but had biological children from his current wife Shanna Muldoon. He has two Adorable kids Halo Violetta Zappa and Arrow D’Oro Leon Zappa.

His wife Shanna was already four months pregnant before tying the knot with him. After five months of their marriage, the Blissful couple welcomed their first child a daughter Halo Violetta Zappa on December 28, 2010.

In 2016 the loving duo brought their second child boy Arrow D’Oro Zappa into this world. Ahmet shares a good relationship with his children and despite his hectic schedule, he always manages to provide quality time to his children.

Zappa Family trust

Zappa family trust is a family-run business where they sold musical instruments and a limited edition Zappa Erie boxset of Frank Zappa. The trust has the copyright to Frank Zappa’s musical as well as an artistic image. The trust was run by Frank’s wife Shanna Muldoon.

After the death of his both parents, the trust was handed over to Ahmet and his youngest sister Diva. It was claimed that Ahmet’s other siblings Moon and Dweezil were badly hurt by the decision of their mother because Ahmet and Diva were given 30 % of the share whereas Moon and Dweezil were given only given 20% which was also conditional, If the trust earns profit than only two of them will be beneficial.

Book by Ahmet Zappa

Ahmet is also known as an author who wrote numerous books with the involvement of his wife Shana Muldoon Zappa.

His first novel was The Monstrous Memoirs Of a Mighty McFearless was officially released on January 1, 2006. The author intends to publish this book to inspire and feel optimistic for children of all age groups and discover the happiness of reading. It is a novel that has full-color illustrations throughout and offers scientific data on all the terrifying things that go took place in the night, as well as recipes for keeping the bloodthirsty beasts at bay. This novel was the first horrifying and hysterical tale by Ahmet which will captivate readers of all ages.

He has written more than twenty books throughout his careers such as Because I am your Dad, Sage and the Journey to the wish world, Libby and the class election, Leona’s unlucky mission, Vega and the fashion disaster, Scarlet discover a true sense and many others.

Rocktails with Ahmet Zappa

He has recently launched his own Apple Podcast on December 12th on the volume channel where he invites musicians and other known faces and asks them about their experience in their respected fields.

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Ahmet Zappa promotes his podcast through his Instagram. Source: @ahmetzappa

people love to see and know the struggling phase of the musician through his podcast. Viewers praised and support him by taking a Sirius Satellite subscription just to listen to his podcast.

Son of Frank Zappa

Ahmet Zappa is the son of the widely popular personality Frank Zappa who is known for his contribution to the music industry and known as an American musician, composer, and bandleader. Frank’s birthname was Francis Vincent Zappa Jr.

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Ahmet Zappa’s father Frank Zappa.Source: Proprockdoowop.

Frank Zappa began his career by playing the drum at the age of 12 however he didn’t continue and switched his interest to guitar when he was 18. Frank couldn’t finish his junior college and dropped out and started to work as a window dresser, and met his first wife Kay Sherman.

After dating for several years they decided to get married on 28 December 1960 and separated between late 1963 and early 1964. After that, he got married to Adelaide Gali Zappa in a civil ceremony in New York on September 21, 1967.

Frank bought a recording studio with the money earned by scoring Run home slow (1965)

Does Ahmet have Siblings?

Ahmet Zappa has Three siblings Moon Zappa, Diva Zappa, and Dweezil Zappa. All of his siblings are popular in their respective fields.

Moon Zappa is known for  National Lampoon’s European Vacation (1985), Normal Life (1990) and Love Always (1996). Besides writing, she is also known for her acting and singing. Her voice was also used in a “valley view”.

Dweezil Zappa is a rock guitarist by profession and the elder sibling of Ahmet. Ahmet considers his brother a role model in his. He has an affection and perpetual fondness towards his brothers because he was always supportive and motivating towards Ahmet.

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Ahmet Zappa and his brother Dweezil Zappa.Source: Livemusicblog.com

Ahmet used to share a great bond with him but after the division of the Zappa Family Trust. The relationship between the two brothers seems to fade but as of now, the misunderstanding has been clear between the two brothers, and came to a mutual understanding.

Diva Zappa is the youngest sibling of Ahmet and an actor professional who has worked in several movies. Being an elder brother of Diva he cares for and supports her in every step of her life and both of them are the hander of Zappa Family Trust.

Is Amet a Social Media freak?

Like every other celebrity, Ahmet also has active participation on his social media, he is followed by 3k people on his Instagram account:Ahmet Zappa where he promotes his apple podcasts posts a picture of himself and information regarding his upcoming launch. Additionally, On his Twitter: AhmetZapa he is followed by 17.8 K people.

He joined his Twitter account on 2008.

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