Facts About Freddie Mercury And His Impact On More Than Just Queen

Freddie Mercury’s oversized presence on the stage was a great match with his flamboyance and perseverance to deliver. It wasn’t just his stage personality, it was his ability to be a strong performer while making it a theatrical show. However, being shy and not doing many interviews over his career, Mercury proved to be different in many ways.

Long before he passed away from a deadly disease, Mercury made a dramatic impact on music that lives on to this day. Before he even formed Queen, he was attending art college, and Freddie Mercury was never his real name. From his rise to fame to his many relationships, he is one of the rock world’s most versatile musicians ever.

Farrokh Bulsa From Zanzibar

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Farrokh Bulsara was born on September 5, 1946, in Zanzibar, Tanzania. His parents, Bomi and Jer Bulsara, practiced the Zoroastrian religion, and he had a sister, Kashmira. His family lived in Zanzibar so his father could continue working as a cashier for the British Colonial Office.

Bulsara spent most of his youth in India. Then at 17 years old, his family fled from Zanzibar because of the Zanzibar Revolution in 1964. The family would move to Feltham, Middlesex, England, and Bulsara enrolled at Isleworth which is now West Thames College where he studied art.