Freddie Mercury
Freddie Mercury stamp, issued c. 2006, photo by gors4730/Bigstock.com
Birth Name: Farrokh Bulsara
Date of Birth: 5 September, 1946
Place of Birth: Stone Town, Sultanate of Zanzibar (now Tanzania)
Date of Death: 24 November, 1991
Place of Death: Kensington, London, England, U.K.
Ethnicity: Parsi
Freddie Mercury was a British singer, songwriter, and record producer. He was the lead singer of the band Queen. Other members of the band include or have included John Deacon, Brian May, and Roger Taylor.
Freddie was born Farrokh Bulsara in Stone Town, in the British protectorate of Zanzibar, now Tanzania, an island near Africa. His parents, Jer Jasi Behranji (Khanj) and Bomi Rustomji Bulsara, were Parsis, from India. His father was from Maharashtra. His mother was from Gujarat. His father worked as a cashier at the British Colonial Office in Zanzibar. The surname Bulsara is derived from the town of Bulsar, now Valsad, in southern Gujarat.
Freddie’s family was of the Zoroastrian religion. He spent much of his youth in India and Zanzibar, and moved to London, England, when he was seventeen. In India, he attended St. Peter’s School, a British-style boarding school for boys.
Throughout his career, he was said to have been hesitant to talk about his ethnic background. This was something he was criticized for. He is considered Britain’s first Asian rock star.
Freddie was played by Rami Malek in the film Bohemian Rhapsody (2018). Rami won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the role.
Freddie’s paternal grandfather was named Givind Bulsara.
Freddie’s paternal grandmother was named Devkor.
Sources: http://www.time.com
Genealogy of Freddie Mercury – https://www.findagrave.com
Genealogy of Freddie Mercury (focusing on his father’s side) – https://www.geni.com
not parsi indian, PERSIAN would be correct…
In Iran there are a lot of people with blonde hair and green or blue eyes. Green eyes are more common than in Europe. The iranian people originally came 4 thousand years ago from Caucasus and modern Russia. They mixed with native people like Elamites and summerians who were black. The nazis considered aryans (iranians) from a original white race and Germany one of few contries in which the mixed less with non whites. Even nazis knew germans weren’t full aryans, although this theory be wrong scientificaly.
What about Indians?
@Pedro henrique
There are barely no people with brown hair in Iran, let alone blonde.
Freddy seemed to me like a british guy or french. Never thought he could be indian.
Same here. He’s Parsi
@pedro_henrique Indian is not a name of an ethnicity, it’s a name of the nationality.
He was Persian/Iranian, even his religion is a good indication of his ethnic background, you don’t even have to mention “indian” , his family lived there but didn’t have the origins.
Eh… some mixed
Since you are Jewish, you are technically Middle Eastern, related to other Levantines.