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.
Because it’s in West Asia. Light hair is largely a European phenomenon, though certainly not exclusive to Europe. Not unheard of in west asia, and even some Melanesians have it.
Central Asia has some distribution of light hair and light eyes too.
I’d say that’s because Central Asia is a mishmash of West Eurasian (Caucsoid) and East Eurasian (Mongoloid) ethnic groups. It’s sort of a borderland between Europe and Asia, Kazakhstan especially. It’s only 300 miles from Ukraine and yet the people there look completely different from Slavs, but like you said there are some with light hair and eyes there showing some overlap.
There’s blondes in Afghanistan, Nuristani people have examples, there’s Mongolians with blonde hair, some Chinese. Like you said Melanesians have some examples, so do Austronesians. You can find examples scattered in small pockets across the western hemisphere. I don’t think all blondes trace their heritage to the Caucasus region. It increases the likelihood, but it’s not the necessary key.
Roftl you fcking non-white pocs you always try to make you Nordic all these non-European folks are like 99.5% dark haired and dark eyed and the majority of them have dark skin too like the pakis,, afghanis.
The lightest are still dark and don’t look Europeans they have their own faces.
Stop to say these bullshits.
No one is suggesting they’re Nordic. Blonde hair is not an exclusively Nordic trait. We aren’t talking about skin pigmentation or physiognomy, primarily just hair color, even though I did mention eyes. Overall though, we aren’t suggesting these are common occurrences, just that they exist.
Lololol you’re doing it your intension is this. It’s dominant and primarly of and on them in the other non-Euro cases it’s simply a genetic mutation a dna mistake, or because they’re very exposed to their exotic heavy sun which naturally make it light but it’s just a shadow, a reflex not the real blonde yellow color.
All differences between populations start as genetic mutation. Unless a mutation causes detriment and impediment, it’s not a mistake, it’s just variation or differences. Blue eyes are a mutation, but no one calls them a mistake, except for people with Waardenburg syndrome.
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.
I wouldn’t say so. He looked Persian, just with lighter complexion. He was occasionally mistaken for Italian. I could see him being that.
I musn’t say so too he didn’t have the European face. He looked Turkish or yeah Iranian these kind of Semitic race, exactly, just with lighter complexion. He was occasionally mistaken for Italian/French/Brit since when and where? Oh you fricking pocs wannabe Euros here in Europe nobody never thought it and still don’t do it.
@l!ttletimmy ya colored Spik/Taliban/Pajeet non-European don’t harrass my folk because if I start to do that toward your own race you’ll cry a lot I can be very mean and much more racist than you.
Eye for an Eye.
@pedro_henrique
He was extremely Parsi looking, there’s nothing british about him, google more Parsi people and you will figure it out.
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.