Freddie Mercury

Freddie Mercury, born as Farrokh Bulsara (Stone Town, Zanzibar, September 5, 1946-Kensington, London, United Kingdom, November 24, 1991) was a British singer, composer, pianist, and musician of Parsi and Indian origin for being the lead singer of the rock band Queen.

As an interpreter, he has been recognized for his powerful voice and extravagant staging. As a composer, he wrote many of Queen's hits, such as Killer Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody, Somebody to Love, We Are the Champions, Do not Stop Me Now, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, It's a Hard Life or Innuendo. In addition to the activity with the band, in the eighties he launched his solo career, which led him to publish two albums, Mr. Bad Guy (1985) and Barcelona (1988), the latter in collaboration with the Spanish soprano Montserrat Caballé. The simple namesake, a collaboration between both, was the official song of the Olympic Games of Barcelona 1992.

He died of a bronchopneumonia complicated by AIDS on November 24, 1991, only a day after officially announcing that he had the latter disease. In 2006, Time Asia magazine named him one of the most influential Asian heroes of the last sixty years. In 2005, in a survey organized by Blender and MTV2, he was named the best male singer of all time. In 2008, the American magazine Rolling Stone placed him in the 18th place on his list of the 100 best singers of all time, while Classic Rock, the following year, considered him the best rock singer in history. For his part , Allmusic defined Mercury as "one of the most charismatic and dynamic leaders in the history of rock".