Ruth Underwood

Biography

Ruth Underwood is a renowned American musician, known for her work on xylophone and other percussion instruments with Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention from 1968 until the mid-1970s and briefly before his death in 1993. A classically trained pianist, she studied at Ithaca College and Juilliard before becoming associated with Zappa through her regular attendance at the Garrick Theater in New York City. She later married fellow musician Ian Underwood.