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Mia Katherine Zapata (August 25, 1965 – July 7, 1993) was an American musician who was the lead singer for the Seattle punk band The Gits. After gaining praise in the emerging grunge scene, Zapata was murdered in 1993 while on her way home from a music venue, at age 27 . [2]
May 23, 2021 · Christine Sievanen. Jesus Mezquia, the man convicted of murdering Seattle musician Mia Zapata, died in a hospital in Pierce County, Washington, on January 21st. He was 66 years old. His death was ...
Sommer said he had made a deal to sign the Gits to Atlantic four days before Zapata's death. Murder of Mia Zapata. On the night of July 7, 1993, Mia Zapata was brutally raped and murdered while walking home from a bar, The Comet. The Seattle Police Department initially focused their investigation on Zapata's circle of friends, believing that ...
- 1986–1993
- Seattle, Washington, U.S.
- Punk rock
- Mia Zapata, Joe Spleen (b. Andy Kessler), Matt Dresdner, Steve Moriarty
May 23, 2021 · The man convicted of murdering influential singer Mia Zapata of Seattle’s The Gits on July 7, 1993 has died.. Jesus Mezquia, age 66, died in a hospital in Pierce County, Washington on January 21 ...
Jul 9, 2018 · The Gits, Mia Zapata on left. Jackie Ransier. Bassist Matt Dresdner still remembers the first time he heard Mia Zapata sing, a few months before they started their band the Gits. It was in the ...
Mar 22, 2023 · Mia Zapata was the singer and frontwoman of the Seattle punk band The Gits when a sex worker found her lying in the street, murdered, in the middle of the night on July 7, 1993, according to Rolling Stone. Only 27 years old when she was killed, the search for Zapata's killer quickly went cold for a decade before DNA led to the conviction of ...
Jul 7, 2023 · It’s impossible to know whether the Gits would have found fame upon a major label release. Sommer believes that the band, “both in terms of the twisting, turning, traditionally powerful rock music that the Gits made, and Mia Zapata, by the force of her presence and the force of her charisma” could have been a good fit for Atlantic Records.
