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Mia Katherine Zapata (August 25, 1965 – July 7, 1993) was the lead singer for the Seattle punk rock band The Gits. Highly influential in the Seattle, Washington music scene, she was considered a dynamic live performer and a uniquely gifted lyricist and painter. Zapata is claimed as a major influence by fellow Seattleites 7 Year Bitch, singers Cinder Block of punk bands Tilt and Retching Red, Andrea Zollo of indie-rock band Pretty Girls Make Graves and Brody Dalle of The Distillers. On the morning of July 7, 1993, Zapata decided to walk home from a friend's house shortly after...

La Revolución de Emiliano Zapata (Guadalajara, México. 1970 - present) was a 1970s music group in Mexico that broke sales records in Europe with their song ‘Nasty Sex’. Breaking ties with their original concept, they continue actively interpreting romantic ballads. In the era of psychedelic rock and under the influence of American hippies of the late 1960s, a young band from Guadalajara headed by Javier Martin del Campo, formed with the intention of interpreting contemporary popular songs of the era in their own style. Initially, their hobby led them to play at local parties, but the resulting fame soon spread...