As a child Farrokh, despite his studies, he loved to spend hours and hours at Stone Town Port, flying with his imagination across the ocean horizon, dreaming of those fantastic worlds that years later popularized the lyrics of Queen’s first music.
In the summer of 1954, his dream of visiting far lands came true even if not in the way he had imagined since his parents sent him to study in a prestigious Indian college.
Freddie probably drew from his past for his incredible creativity and his personality so kaleidoscopic and mysterious is a legacy of a culture coming from mystical and distant lands.
The flowers he loved to surround himself with and that he lavishly threw to the fans were a memento he carried inside the colorful and thrilling nature of Zanzibar and India.
He was a 13-year-old boy, lively and intelligent, well aware that he had to face a very different life and that he had to integrate completely so that he would not be forced to live like a foreigner.
The art school he started attending in 1964 led him to choose to call himself after the Mercury God, wind personification.
considered the messenger of the gods and who, as such, had wings in his hat and feet, and the famous wand, called Caduceo.
But he was also the one who protected travelers and inspired dreams to humans; Mercury was attributed to many inventions, such as music and art, for the sharpness of his ingenuity. There are so many paintings that immortalize this god and not for nothing Mercury was a very important god in ancient times!
Arriving in England, young Freddie understood, as an aspiring musician and free spirit in which he had slowly transformed, that fate had finally taken the turn he wanted.
Hardly then he could have imagined how many hearts his voice and amazing skill would have conquered and as always many fans from every part of the world would have remembered him as the legendary Freddie Mercury.
Happy 15th of August to all❤️
