# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/freddie-mercury
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:44:52.103Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/freddie-mercury"
name: "Freddie Mercury"
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description: "The voice that turned rock opera into a global ritual and a four-octave range into a weapon. Mercury didn't just front Queen—he rewrote what a frontman could be, trading guitar-hero posturing for theater, camp, and absolute command."
tagline: "British singer, songwriter and musician, frontman of the rock band Queen (1946–1991)"
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gender: "male"
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category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1946-09-05"
deathDate: "1991-11-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  country:  69
  category: 162
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born Farrokh Bulsara in Zanzibar in 1946 to Indian Parsi parents, he studied at British boarding schools in India before his family fled the Zanzibar Revolution in 1964, landing in Middlesex. He formed Queen in 1970 with Brian May and Roger Taylor, then spent two decades writing the band's biggest songs—"Bohemian Rhapsody," "Somebody to Love," "We Are the Champions"—and turning stages into arenas of interaction, nowhere more visibly than Live Aid in 1985. Diagnosed with AIDS in 1987, he kept recording until the end, finishing work that appeared posthumously on Made in Heaven. He announced his diagnosis publicly on 23 November 1991 and died the next day at forty-five.