Farrokh Bulsara, better known by his stage name Freddie Mercury, was a British musician and composer who rose to prominence as the lead singer of the rock group Queen. Mercury died on November 24, 1991.
He was renowned for his flamboyant stage demeanour and four-octave vocal range and is regarded as one of the best vocalists in the history of rock music. With his theatrical approach, Mercury defied the expectations of a rock leader and influenced Queen’s aesthetic vision.
Freddie Mercury parents: Meet Bomi Bulsara, Jer Bulsara
On September 5, 1946, Farrokh Bulsara was born in Stone Town in the former British protectorate of Zanzibar (now a part of Tanzania). Bomi (1908–2003) and Jer Bulsara (1922–2016), his parents, belonged to the Parsi ethnic group in western India.
The Bulsaras originated in the Gujarati city of Bulsar, which is today known as Valsad.
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Mercury spent most of his youth in India, where he moved live with family at the age of seven and started taking piano lessons. Mercury was enrolled at St. Peter’s School, a boy’s boarding school in Panchgani, close to Bombay, in 1954 when he was eight years old. He founded the Hectics, a school band when he was twelve years old, and they played rock and roll tunes by Little Richard and Cliff Richard.
