Freddie Mercury was born in 1946 in Zanzibar to Parsi-Indian parents. He attended English-style boarding schools in India from the age of eight. He formed Queen in 1970 with guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor. Mercury defied the conventions of a rock frontman, with his highly theatrical style influencing the artistic direction of Queen. He died in 1991 at age 45 due to complications from AIDS.
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Freddie Mercury was a British singer, songwriter, record producer, and lead vocalist of the rock band Queen. Born in 1946 in Zanzibar to Parsi-Indian parents, he attended English-style boarding schools in India from the age of eight. He formed Queen in 1970 with guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor. Mercury defied the conventions of a rock frontman, with his highly theatrical style influencing the artistic direction of Queen. Mercury died in 1991 at age 45 due to complications from AIDS. He was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001. In 2002, Mercury ranked number 58 in the BBC’s poll of the 100 Greatest Britons. His career with Queen was dramatised in the 2018 biopic Bohemian Rhapsody. He is survived by his wife, two children and a step-daughter. The couple had a son and a daughter, both of whom are now in their 60s and 70s. Mercury is buried at St Paul’s Anglican Church in Panchgani, near Bombay, India. He also leaves behind a wife and two children, who are in their 50s and 60s, and a son, who is in his late 20s and 40s. He died of AIDS complications in 1991, having been diagnosed in 1987. He continued to record with Queen following his diagnosis, and he was featured on the band’s final album, Made in Heaven. In 1992, his tribute concert was held at Wembley Stadium.
In 1990, he and the other Queen members were awarded the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music, and one year after his death Mercury was awarded it individually. In 2005, Queen were awarded an Ivor Novello Award for outstanding Song Collection from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers, and Authors. Mercury was born Farrokh Bulsara in Stone Town in the British protectorate of Zanzibia on 5 September 1946. His parents, Bomi and Jer Bulsar, were from the Parsi community of western India. As Parsis, the Bulsareas practised Zoroastrianism. He had a younger sister, Kashmira. At the aged of 12, he formed a school band, the Hectics, and covered rock and roll artists such as Cliff Richard and Little Richard. In February 1963, he moved back to Zantzibar where he joined his parents at their flat in the spring of 1964. In late 1964, his parents fled from the violence of the Zanziberan revolution against the Sultan of Zantzabar. They moved to 19th Close, Middlesex, England, before settling into a small house at 122 Gladstone Avenue in late October. He later used these skills to design heraldic arms for his first band, Felicic. After first studying art at Isleworth Polytechnic, he went on to study at Ealing Art College, graduating in 1969 with a diploma in heraldic design.
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