FARROK BULSARA was FREDDIE MERCURY´s true name.

He was born on Thursday, 5th September  1946, in a small island of archipelago of Zanzibar, whose main economic activity was growing spices.

His parents’ names were Bomi and Jer Bulsara. They were parsees of  India.

His father worked as a cashier of the Supreme Court for the British Government.

His sister Kashmira was born in 1952.

When he was eight years old, he was sent to college in Panchgani, seventy-five kilometres from Bombay. There his friends began to call him Freddi, and his family began to use this name too.

He was crazy about music. He used to listen to music at home, and he heaped the disks up, to listen to them over and over again. He listened to music from India and music from western countries too.

The school’s headmaster noticed his skill and he suggested to his parents that they pay his music classes. They accepted and Freddie learnt to play the piano. He took part in the school chorus and the theatrical productions organized at school.

He loved playing the piano, and he got the best mark for playing the piano in his school.

In 1958, Freddie, with his school partners, created the rock’n’roll band called “The Hectics”. Freddie was the band pianist.

They played for the annual parties at the Freddie in 1979 school.

In 1962, Freddie finished his studies and he went back to Zanzibar. In 1964 Freddie’s family left India and  went to England.

Freddie wanted to go to Art School, but he needed a good mark to get in, so he began to study at the Polytechnic school near home.

In 1966 he got the best mark in the art class at the Polytechnic school and went to Ealing Art College in September of that year.

In the Ealing Art College he met Tim Staffel, who was a bassist in a band called “The Smile”. Freddie began to practise music for the first time since he left India.
Freddie had a fantastic and varied voice. People liked him because of his behaviour on stage.

He knew how to organize a show: It wasn´t something that could be taught, he had charisma, a natural gift, with his appearance, his voice, his quality music.

He changed his image. He had his hair cut and had a moustache.

In April of 1970, Tim Staffel, who Freddie Knew from Ealing Art School left “The Smile” band, then Freddie decided to join it.

He became the lead singer of “The Smile”. He decided to change the band’s name as well as his first surname. The new band´s name was “QUEEN” and his surname became “MERCURY”.

The first “Queen” song that got into the British charts, called “Seven Seas of Rhye” was Freddie´s.

Freddie composed the song “Killer Queen”, Queen’s greatest success, and “Bohemian Rhapsody”, the most famous Queen song, that was number one for nine weeks.

At the end of 1982, Queen’s members decided to take a rest, and Freddie was offered to take part in a film soundtrack. He accepted and the result was “Love Kills” song, which was Freddie Mercury’s first single.

In May of 1983 he attended the Royal Opera, to see a play of Giuseppe Verdi, and he saw Montserrat Caballé for the first time. He was hipnotized by her strong and beautiful voice.

In 1987, he flew to Barcelona to meet Montserrat Caballé, and he gave her a cassette with two or three of his songs. She liked them and she sang one of them in London Covent Garden. Freddie was surprised, and soon he began to work on an album that both would record.

After that, Freddie accepted to be  guest of honor in the Ibiza show, in which both sang the song which Freddie had made for Montserrat Caballé and her native city, Barcelona.

The last show in which he appeared was in 1990. 24th November 1991 Freddie Mercury died of AIDS in his London house.

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