Queen - Live at Wembley Stadium 1986

(born Farrokh Bulsara; Stone Town, Zanzibar; September 5, 1946-Kensington, London; November 24, 1991) was a British singer, songwriter, pianist, graphic designer and musician of Parsi and Indian origin, known to have been the lead vocalist of the rock band Queen.

As a performer, he has been recognized for his powerful voice and outrageous staging. As a songwriter, he wrote many of Queen's hits, such as "Killer Queen," "Bohemian Rhapsody," "Somebody to Love," "We Are the Champions," "Don't Stop Me Now," "Crazy Little Thing Called. Love "," It's a Hard Life "or" Innuendo ". In addition to his 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 homonymous single, a collaboration between the two, was the official song of the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games.

He died of a bronchopneumonia complicated by AIDS on November 24, 1991, just one day after officially communicating that he suffered from 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 poll organized by Blender and MTV2, he was named the best male singer of all time. In 2008, the American magazine Rolling Stone ranked him 18th on its list of the 100 greatest singers of all time, while Classic Rock, the following year, considered him the best rock singer in history. For its part, Allmusic defined Mercury as "one of the most charismatic and dynamic leaders in rock history."