Freddy singer biography

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. Frontman, songwriter and ideological inspirer of the legendary group Queen. I don't care! Nevertheless, the influence of Queen on musical history is difficult to overestimate.

Freddy’s creativity and personality at one time was inspired by Kurt Cobain, the soloist of the British group Muse called Queen the best group in the world. For the sake group, the Greatness of Queen is the result of the efforts of all four participants, and not one soloist found the perfect balance between commercial and high -quality music, stadium rock and sincerity. Childhood and youth Farruh, which translates the language of Farsi as "lucky", Bulsara was born on September 5 in the stone city of Zanzibar Island.

Now it is part of the Republic of Tanzania, and in those years Zanzibar was a “puppet” state under the auspices of the British Empire. His father Bomi was an accountant at the Supreme Court of England and Wales and earned well, so the family did not need anything. Mother, Jer Bulsara, was engaged in raising children: Farruh and his youngest for six years of Kashmira sister. Freddie Mercury's parents in his youth from the first months of his life Farruch conquered the hearts of others with his smile.

When he was a year, parents photographed their son and sent a picture to a local competition of photographs. The jury awarded the lascivious baby first place. Farrukh Balsara Freddie Mercury in childhood, the family belonged to the ethnic group of parses - people with Iranian roots, professing Zoroastrism. When Farruhu was 7 years old, he was sent to study in bombs, because the largest community of Parses lived there.

Kashmir, the younger sister of Freddie Mercury, the boy sent to the boarding school named after St. Peter in the Km from the largest city of India, where he proved himself to be a capable and diligent student, was fond of creativity and sports. The sister recalled that she was only a year when Farruh left to study, but she adored her older brother, and the most striking event was his arrival on the holidays.

Freddie Mercury in his school years on weekends, he visited his relatives either on the maternal side or his paternal. Relatives of their parents lived there, because both Bomi and Jem were natives from Bombay, they had to move to Zanzibar when the head of the family was transferred to the service. Freddie Mercury with friends on a boarding school in a boarding school Farruh was carried away by music: the Bollywood singer Lata Menheshkar had a special influence on him.

Upon arrival in the bombs, he began to take the lessons of the game on the piano, and later “hooked” on rock and roll. At 12, he mastered the guitar and together with his comrades made the group The Hectics. He knew, in his own words, it was bad from his hands, but he devoted every free minute to writing songs. The Hectics group of Farruch’s interests was huge: music, drawing, fashion, theatrical art.

Whatever he took, he was waiting for success. Parents proudly kept letters from the school, which reported the high performance of their son. Others loved him - the young man knew how to position him from the first moments. At the same time, by nature he was a shy person, but skillfully hid it. Of course, I was sick of this, ”Kashmir admitted. Most of the classmates of Farruch spoke English.

It was difficult for them to pronounce his real name, so Farruch quickly transformed into Freddy. In the year, when Farruhu was 16, Zanzibar gained independence, and the family had problems with the local population. Bomi had a British passport, so the family, along with Farruch, decided to move to Britain and moved to Feltham, London's suburbs. Freddie Mercury in his youth, the beginning of X at first, the young man did not feel at ease.

He is used to being the most fashionable in his environment, only in Bombay the concept of “fashionable” was interpreted differently. In the boarding school, he shouted briefly and wore an emphasized neat suit, while London youth wore long manes and shabby jeans with t -shirts. But he quickly assimilated and also grew long hair, which he adored and looked at the mirror for a long time.

Over the years of study in the boarding school, Farrukh was accustomed to independence and was not going to report to his parents, when, for example, he put into the next adventure at night clubs and came in the morning. Kashmir Bulsara Kuk about the older brother, a lot of scandals in the family caused the unwillingness of Farruch to receive higher education. He wanted to engage in creativity, parents insisted on a serious profession like an accountant or lawyer.

The compromise has become the faculty of graphic design of the college of Ealing. Freddie idols at that time were Jimmy Hendrix and Rudolf Nureyev, he dedicated his dissertation to the work of the first. Freddie Mercury in the year already in college Freddy secured the glory of an extremely shocking young man. For example, once he cut a tablecloth, put it on himself and in this form came to classes.

Many people think that I have a foul character. But I like to be ambiguous and surround myself with complex, conflicting bitch children. In a society of impeccable people, I would be bored.Having received a diploma unnecessary to him, sewing two women's coats for this, Freddy decided to rent an apartment in London-I wanted freedom, and the neighbor threatened to sue the guy if he did not stop non-stop play the guitar and listen to the records at full volume.

Freddy met the first steps to glory at the end of his studies with the Liverpool group IBEX. 10 days after the first meeting, Mercury already knew the entire repertoire of the musicians, added several of his own songs to him and went to the first concert in his life as part of the blues festival in Bolton. Despite the successful performance and subsequent concerts, the group quickly broke up, as some of the participants returned to study.

Freddie Mercury in his youth moved to London, an ambitious guy rented a room more reminiscent of a closet. His neighbor in the room was Tim Staffel, a student of the Imperial College and the guitarist of the group “”, later renamed The Smile. Later, the drummer Roger Taylor joined them with Brian Mem, and Staffel himself left the group due to problems with studies. However, Taylor and May quickly found who to replace Tim.

They were well acquainted with his neighbor in the room, and when it turned out that, in addition to charm and musicality, he sings perfectly, not hesitating for a minute, he invited him to a group, the name of which according to the proposal Freddy was replaced by Queen - “Queen”. They were joined by the bass player John Dikon, and this composition began in this summer star history of the legendary group.

Queen, after the end of the formation of the group, Merkuri created their coat of arms: the coat of arms of Great Britain was based on and images of the zodiac signs of members of the musical union, namely two lions, cancer and a virgin were added. The coat of arms of the Queen group came up with Freddie Mercury Mercury playing a leading role in the formation of the entire group of the group, including the musical: he owns the authorship of the vast majority of compositions, for example, the Love of My Life lyrical ballad, the unique “Bohemian Rhapsody”, as well as the songs “We are there?

Champions ”, which has become a gym of sportsball players. Queen - “We Are the Champions” in the year Freddy adds to his fictional name the pseudonym Mercury, which means “Mercury” or “Mercury”, because this metal, as you know, is very fluid - Freddy was the same flexible, fast. He officially changed his name. In the same year, the group releases its first album “Trident”, which has become popular overnight.

High -quality stadium rock and a variety of genres in which the musicians worked, caused the audience a delight, many compared them to The Beatles. Quueen photo shoot in the apartment of Freddie Mercury, the beginning of X in Queen released the famous Bohemian Rhapsody, a six -minute single in the experimental style, which brought the group the long -awaited world glory and money.

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody Mercury was not only an outstanding musician, but also an outstanding actor. Thanks to this, each concert of the group turned into a real show: its unique, so easily recognizable voice was supplemented by bright temperament, emotionality, plastic. The video clips of the group were the result of Mercury's desire to unite theater and music, sound and light effects - he was the author of most clips scenarios.

It will be wrong to call him a strict homosexual - among his lovers were both men and women. He possessed a huge sexual appetite and easily had people. At the beginning of Freddy, there was a long relationship with Mary Austin, with whom he was introduced to the group of Brian May. Mary worked as a manager in a cosmetics store, and Freddy, along with Taylor, traded clothes on the market with a tray.

At first, Mary, Austin Freddie Merkuri, met his extravagance pushed Mary, who was apprehensive belonged to bohemian eccentrics. But having learned him better, she felt interest. Freddy was not like any of her friends. Emphasized by his ambitiousness and aplomb, she moved to his room, where they lived together, until the Queen group began to bring sufficient income to withdraw the apartments for Holland Road.

Freddie and Mary lived together as the spouses of Freddy and Mary Austin were together for six years and called themselves husband and wife. However, Mary felt that their marriage was missing something. At the beginning of the relationship, Freddy gave her a ring, hinting at the wedding, but in the future he did not talk about it anymore. Once, when they walked around the shops, Mary saw a white dress in the window and asked straighten - is it time for her to prepare for the wedding?

The answer “no” was a blow under the breath. She sorted out the possible reasons for the refusal, but did not understand what was wrong with their relationship. The interview of Freddie Mercury only in the year Mercury admitted to her that he was gay. He wanted to make her a proposal and conclude a fictitious marriage “to take the eyes”, but he considered that it would be unfair to Mary, who remains for him the closest person, despite the orientation.

The musician expected Mary to arrange a scandal and would no longer want to see him, but she took this news with relief, the doubts tormented by her disappeared. They were close to the very end until the end of their life, they remained close friends. He bought her an apartment, but almost all the time the woman spent in his mansion to Garden Lodge. Mary was part of the family for Freddy.

It was she who told his parents the mourning news when Freddie died. Freddie Mercury and Mary Austin himself often said that he always loved Mary and under other circumstances she would become his wife. He bequeathed to her most of his millionth state. In the year, Freddy began relations with hairdresser Jim Hatton, which continued until his death. Hatton looked after Mercury during the last days of his life, and then wrote a book called Mercury and I.

Freddie Mercury with Jim Hatton Mercury had a wrong bite caused by the presence of 4 extra teeth. When his career was just beginning, he wanted to correct the bite, but he was afraid that this could worsen vocal data. The last years of his life, the first rumors appeared about his disease of the immunodeficiency virus. The members of the group stubbornly refuted them, but the day before the death of Mercury, made an official statement that HIV was sick.

According to various estimates, the event was attended from to thousands of people. The scene is located in the center of the park Nebood House, fans scattered tents at the entrance a few days before the start. The last concert of Queen with Freddie Mercury rode around the stage, started the crowd, in a word, did everything as usual.