Dweezil Zappa music by touring with the group Zappa Plays Zappa. The band features renditions of Zappa's original material and the lineup has often included Zappa alumni such as Napoleon Murphy Brock, Steve Vai, Terry Bozzio and others. Dweezil Zappa was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of musician Frank Zappa and Gail Zappa, who worked in business. He is the second of four siblings: his older sister, Moon, younger sister Diva and younger brother Ahmet. He is the cousin of actress Lala Sloatman. Zappa's father was of Sicilian, Greek, Arab, and French descent, and his mother was of French, Irish
Sun and moon letters consonant assimilation rule or the shaddah when latinized in Latin-spelled languages. Sometimes the sun and moon rules are not followed in casual speech. E.g. personal name: الرَّحْمَن - Al-Rahman instead of ""Ar-Raḥmān""; geographical name: الْجُمْهُورِيَّةُ التُّونِسِيَّة - Al-Jumhuriyah Al-Tunisiyah instead of ""al-Jumhūrīyatu ’t-Tūnisīyah"". Sun and moon letters In Arabic and Maltese, the consonants are divided into two groups, called the sun letters or solar letters ( ') and moon letters or lunar letters ( '), based on whether they assimilate the letter ' ( ') of a preceding Arabic definite article "al-" (), which is an important general rule used