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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 quickly gained popularity in the Seattle music scene of the early 1990s, and major record labels took notice. But just as The Gits were poised to explode onto the national music scene, tragedy struck. On July 7, 1993, Mia was raped and murdered while walking home. Her murder remained unsolved for a decade, prompting numerous conspiracy theories, including that she was killed by a rival band, stalked by a rabid fan, or that a Satanic cult was involved. Finally, using old DNA evidence, a Cuban drifter was convicted in 2004 of Mia's murder and is serving a 37-year sentence.
The Seattle music community had been shattered by death many times in the early 1990s. In 1990, Mother Love Bone singer Andrew Wood died of a heroin overdose. In 1991, local poet Jesse Bernstein shot himself. Stefanie Sargent of 7 Year Bitch overdosed in 1992. Kurt Cobain of Nirvana committed suicide in 1994. All of these deaths altered the local music scene, but because Mia's death was a homicide, her memory in particular haunted the community. Many bands broke up after her murder, and her posters still hang in clubs and cafés.

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Mia Zapata and The Gits Film 3 Replies

For over 6 years we worked on The Gits Documentary. Come check out The Gits Movie Official site on MySpace and our new website: thegitsmovie.com. Cool photos and news about the dvd and theatrical r...

Started by kerri o'kane. Last reply by Craig Wilson Jul. 13, 2008.

Fucking waste

This awesome , imaginative female being snuffed out by some cankerous moron searching for a rape fix , ending her career before she could blossom....NO FUCK THAT, THE FACT THAT IT HAPPENED TO ANYON...

Started by Thirst -4- Ignorance Jun. 17, 2008.

lil more about the band... 2 Replies

The Gits were originally formed in 1986 while attending Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. They called themselves the Snivelling Little Rat Faced Gits (a reference to a Monty Python skit, epi...

Started by warangel. Last reply by stacy May. 14, 2008.

Mia Zapata pics 6 Replies

VIVA ZAPATA!! MIA LIVES!

Tagged: zapata, gits, mia, the, documentary

Started by Jessica Bender. Last reply by warangel May. 7, 2008.

MIA ZAPATA PHOTO GALLERY 15 Replies

Add photos of Mia here to celebrate her poetry,music, and memory...

Started by stacy. Last reply by Jessica Bender May. 7, 2008.

Mia Zapata 4 Replies

Mia was raped and murdered and left in the middle of the street, walking home from her favorite bar. Her body was beaten beyond recognition... how did the motherfucker convicted of her murder get o...

Started by stacy. Last reply by Amber (aka) _Pr0z@k_ May. 6, 2008.

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Comment by Thirst -4- Ignorance on December 21, 2008 at 6:01am: fucking good band , i hope lots of bad shit happens to that fucking idiot asshole rapist piece of shit while he languishes in a cage where he belongs if not worse...Back on track though, they fucking rule , it's hard to find any of their stuff locally...Any good Gits-related charities?

Comment by Michaela on June 21, 2008 at 6:19pm: FOR ONE BRIEF SHINING MOMENT
These words are from the musical Camelot by Lerner and Loewe and were used by William Manchester for the title of his book outlining those years of John F. Kennedy’s time as president. And as mythical and unreal as Camelot is and as mortal and a mere man with feet of clay as Kennedy really was, they yet still serve iconographic roles in portraying a sense of innocence lost and hope blighted. While yet still inspiring us with the belief that such things can exist in this putrid world.

These words are equally true of Mia Zapata – for one brief shining moment she lit up our world, inspired us with her art and performance, her wonderful music and passion. A strong and beautiful woman who strove to carve out a Camelot for women in the misogynistic patriarchy of the music world, it’s a battle that never ceases. No matter how close we have come before or since, not only the music world but the world at large remains a patriarchy, an unsafe place for women.

Mia’s brutal rape and death at the hands of a man left us bereft and stunned, as shocking as Kennedy’s assassination and as poignant as the loss of Camelot in an age of darkness we were once again left with a sense of innocence lost and hope blighted. But as a Phoenix rising from the flames an Immortal is born, an image as powerful and beautiful and inspiring as those other brief shining moments that have gone before. With a power to transform the lives of those who come into contact with her, to offer hope amidst despair. Her time with us was truly ONE BRIEF SHINING MOMENT.

Viva Zapata - morituri te salutant

Comment by "BONES" on June 20, 2008 at 6:15pm: Well I made it War Angel ! and what a terrible way to have a talented and awesome person die @ the hands of a sick bastard like this idiot.. may he feel the rath for his deed's..

"bones"

Comment by stacy on June 12, 2008 at 7:31am: THIS GROUP FUCKIN ROCKS!!!!!

Comment by warangel on June 11, 2008 at 6:24pm: thank u rose and stacy helping me the group..

Comment by Blackrose on June 9, 2008 at 1:17pm: The Gits Movie

Comment by warangel on June 8, 2008 at 2:56pm: i see the group is getting on along hehe havent been here in a looong time!

Comment by Blackrose on June 5, 2008 at 5:56am: hey stacy~ need any info on those dates come see me. I've got some places & dates I can give ya. You Rock!

Comment by stacy on June 4, 2008 at 12:17pm: yea, the gits movie is gonna kick some major ass!!! mia zapata is gonna shine, thanks to director kerri o'kane....she's absolutely amazing!!! KERRI, YOU ROCK!!!