Freddie Mercury

Freddie Mercury (English Freddie Mercury, real name Farrukh Bulsara (Guj. ફારોખ બલ્સારા‌); September 5, 1946, Stone Town, Zanzibar - November 24, 1991, London, UK) - British singer of Parsi origin, songwriter, vocalist of the rock band Queen ... He was the author of such hits of the group as "Seven Seas of Rhye", "Killer Queen", "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Somebody to Love", "We Are the Champions", "Crazy Little Thing Called Love", etc. The musician also had solo creativity. Freddie died on November 24, 1991 from bronchial pneumonia, which developed against the background of AIDS.
In 2002, Freddie Mercury was ranked 58th in the BBC's 100 Greatest Britons poll. In 2005, Blender magazine conducted a poll, according to the results of which Freddie ranked second among vocalists (first among men). In 2008, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him 18th on Rolling Stone magazine's 100 Greatest Vocalists of All Time. Allmusic described him as "one of the greatest rock singers and one of the greatest voices in the history of music."