Freddie Mercury

Farrokh Bulsara in art Freddie Mercury was born on 5 September 1946 in Stone Town on the island of Zanzibar and died on 24 November 1991 (because of a bronchopneumonia induced by HIV AIDS). He was a pianist, song writer and lead singer of Queen was left-handed. In India where Freddie was educated during his early childhood, parents and educators discouraged the use of the left hand, so Mercury learned to write and perform other tasks equally well with his right hand. He was a Parsi-British musician, best known as the lead singer of the rock band Queen. He is noted for his vocal abilities and for his live performances. As a child, Mercury listened to a considerable amount of Indian music, and one of his early influences was the Bollywood playback singer Lata Mangeshkar, whom he had the opportunity to see live in India. After moving to England, Mercury became a fan of Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon and The Beatles. Freddie Mercury possessed a very distinctive voice, including a recorded range of nearly four octaves; he recorded an album with Catalan soprano Montserrat Caballé. Mercury wrote ten out of the seventeen songs on Queen's Greatest Hits album: "Seven Seas of Rhye", "Killer Queen", "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Somebody to Love", "Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy", "We Are the Champions", "Bicycle Race", "Don't Stop Me Now", "Crazy Little Thing Called Love", and "Play the Game". E Had a Solo career producing two solo albums, Mr. Bad Guy and Barcelona, released in 1985 and 1988, respectively. In the early 1970s Mercury had a long-term relationship with a girlfriend named Mary Austin. By 1980, Mercury began to frequent gay bathhouses and clubs, where he met many short-term partners.