15 Little Known Facts About Rock’s Greatest Voice, Freddie Mercury

The film Bohemian Rhapsody is about to be released and we don’t want to miss the opportunity to remember the great musician Freddie Mercury, with some curious facts about his life. This artist is recognized worldwide as one of the best singers in history, and it’s no wonder. His impressive voice and striking, almost theatrical staging took his group to the top. The leader of the band Queen had a short but intense life full of secrets until the day of his death.

O awesome.club compiled for you some of the most interesting facts about the life of this great rock singer.

Freddie Mercury was born in Zanzibar and his real name was Farrokh Bulsara. At school, he started being called Freddie, and Mercury’s choice was a tribute to his mother for the song. My Fairy Kingwritten by the singer and dedicated to her.

His first musical group formed at St. Peter’s in Bombay, along with four other colleagues, and they were called The Hectics🇧🇷 Freddie was the band’s pianist and played at school events and parties. before forming the queen, the artist belonged to Ibexa group from Liverpool that they soon renamed with the name of wreckage🇧🇷

His love for music came from an early age. That’s why he graduated by teaching piano and then guitar. The rector of St. Peter’s College, Bombay, was one of the first to notice Freddie’s gift for music. Also his aunt Sheroo Khory noticed his great talent and musical ear, from the first time she heard him play the piano, so she encouraged him to continue his musical education.

His dental arch was his biggest complex. Since childhood, his peers nicknamed him “Bucky” and “Rabbit”. Freddie had four extra teeth, which made his teeth move and stick out. The artist was afraid to operate, as it could affect his voice, so he wore a mustache to disguise it.

He studied Art and Graphic Design at the Ealing School of Art in London and was a great collector of artwork. Dalí and Miró were some of his favorite painters. From a young age he showed his ability to paint, something he didn’t stop doing throughout his life. He had a great desire to portray movie and music stars. While studying drawing, Freddie created some pieces for fashion shows and was also very good at print design.

The singer has had several cats as pets throughout his life, most of them coming from shelters. It is said that his love for the cats was such that when he was away on business and couldn’t take them with him, he would call his house and have them put on the phone. For his favorite cat Delilah, Freddie even wrote a song.

Thanks to his good artistic taste and his training in graphic design, Freddie was the creator of the coat of arms of the band Queen. It is made up of the band members’ zodiac signs and the coat of arms of the United Kingdom.

At the Live Aid benefit concert, Queen’s 20 minutes were considered the best live concert in rock history, reaching 79% of votes in the music poll.

He did not confess to almost anyone that he was HIV positive until shortly before his death. The singer lived for seven years with this disease, which he didn’t even want to talk about with his closest circle. At first, only three people knew: his first girlfriend (whom he heard from the artist’s doctor), his partner at the time (Jim Hutton) and his manager. The latter was the one who gave the press release after the media rumors about Mercury’s disease.

The Show Must Go On was written by Brian May and released as an integral part of the album Innuendo in 1991, a few weeks before Freddie’s death. This song refers to the singer’s poor health at the time, already deteriorated by illness.

That no one knew where his body would rest was one of his last wishes. Freddie didn’t want the press to be in on this moment, hence the secret—he just wished they’d let him rest. It is believed that the person in charge of scattering his ashes was Mary Austin, the singer’s first love and faithful friend until his death.

Most of her fortune was left to Mary Austin, including her home and the copyright to her songs. He also left part of the inheritance distributed among his relatives, his partner, his driver, his cook and his assistant.

The artist had a piano at the head of his bed in case he got inspiration while he slept. That is, during the creation of Bohemian Rhapsody, Freddie woke up in the middle of the night with a tune in his head. He knew how to play this instrument even lying down, as it had double joints, which made him a contortionist.

His success was of such magnitude that, for what would have been his 70th birthday, the International Astronomical Union named an asteroid after him: “Freddiemercury 17473”. This rocky body was discovered in 1991, precisely the year the singer died, and it was then decided to rename it to make a special gift, in 2016.

According to several surveys carried out by the international media, such as the The Sun, Freddie Mercury is considered by many to be the greatest singer in history. your songs Bohemian Rhapsody and We Are the Champions were considered among the best of all time.

After reading all these curiosities about the artist, you felt like seeing the movie premiere Bohemian Rhapsody🇧🇷