Mia Zapata grew up listening to Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Jimmy Reed, Ray Charles and Hank Williams. She was also a gifted poet and artist. In the fall of 1986, she formed a rock band called The Gits with three classmates at Antioch College in Ohio. In 1989, they relocated to Seattle, where grunge rock and street punk was burgeoning. The Gits ...
The story of her tragic rape and murder was featured on Unsolved Mysteries. The Story was updated to include her killer's arrest but the trial had not yet happened at the time.
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Lead singer of Riot Grrrl band The Gits.
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Interred at Cave Hill cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky, one of the places where she grew up.
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Gits
2005
Documentary lyrics: "Whirlwind", "Absynthe", "It All Dies Anyway", "Tempt Me", "Sniveling Little Ratfaced Gits", "Guilt Within Your Head", "Cut My Skin", "Social Love II", "Another Shot of Whiskey", "Wingo Lamo", "While You're Twisting, I'm Still Breathing", "Eleven", "Second Skin", "Bob Cousin O", "Social Love I", "Precious Blood", "Daily Bread" / performer: "Social Love I", "Cut My Skin" / writer: "Social Love II", "Social Love I", "Cut My Skin", "Precious Blood"
$13 Million
