Freddie
Mercury (and Queen)
He was
born as Farookh Bulsara on September 5 , 1946 , in Zanzibar ,Tanzania. The name
of his parents are Bomi and Jer Bulsara.
He
studied piano in India and he moved to London to study arts. There, he met many musicians.
After
playing with some other bands, he created Queen in 1971. As the head of this
band he was one of the most innovative and talented singers of the rock era. He
was a singer and also an artist on scene.
Queen was
composed by Freddie, Brian May , Roger Taylor and John Deacon, and their songs reached the top
of US and British charts.
Among the most popular songs we can remark: “Bohemian Rapsodhy” (1975) a seven
minute rock operetta, “We are the champions” and “We will rock you” (1978).
This last two songs are classicals very used at sports events.
At 80’s
they changed their music to disco and symphonic rock style and they
produced many other important hits like: “Another one bites the dust” and “Crazy
Little thing called love”
Freddie
Mercury died still young of AIDS – bronchial pneumonia on November 24 ,1991
at age 45 and he left a legacy of very significant musical compositions that
will remain in history.
Fontes:
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen
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