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{{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Musicians -->
|name = Freddie Mercury
|image = Freddie Mercury duke performuar ne New Haven, CT, Nentor 1978.jpg
|caption = Mercury duke performuar ne [[New Haven, Connecticut|New Haven]], Connecticut, ne 1978 me [[Queen (bande)|Queen]]
|background = solo_singer
|birth_name = Farrokh Bulsara
|religion = [[Zoroastrianist]]
|birth_date = {{Datelindja|1946|9|5|df=y}}
|birth_place = [[Stone Town]], [[Zanzibar]] (tani [[Tanzania]])
|origin = [[Londer]], [[Angli]], [[Kombet e Bashkuara|KB]]<ref name="Highleyman_2005"/>
|death_date = {{Datelindja dhe Mosha |1991|11|24|1946|9|5|df=y}}
|death_place = [[Kensington]], Londer, Angli, KB
|genre = [[Muzike Rock|Rock]], [[hard rock]], [[glam rock]]
|instrument = Vokal, Piano, Kitarre
|occupation = Muzikant, Kengetar/Kompozitor,
|years_active = 1969–1991
|label = [[Columbia Records|Columbia]], [[Polydor Records|Polydor]], [[EMI Records|EMI]], [[Parlophone]], [[Hollywood Records]]
|associated_acts = [[Queen (bande)|Queen]], [[Ibex (bande)|Ibex]] / Wreckage, [[Montserrat Caballé]]
[[File:Freddie Mercury firma 2.svg|150px]]<br />Firma e Freddie Mercury
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'''Freddie Mercury''' (i lindur '''Farrokh Bulsara'''; [[Gjuha Gjuarati|Gujarati]]: ફરોખ બલ્સારા, ''Pharōkh Balsārā''); 5 Shtator 1946 – 24 Nentor 1991)<ref name="mr-mercury.co.uk">[http://mr-mercury.co.uk/Images/Birthcertificatefreddie.jpg Birth certificate] mr-mercury.co.uk</ref><ref name="inourstar.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.inoutstar.com/news/Freddie-Mercury-real-name-Farrokh-Bulsara-1876.html |title=Freddie Mercury (emri i vertete Farrokh Bulsara) Biografi |publisher=Inout Star |accessdate=11 July 2010}}</ref> ishte nje muzikant Britanik,<!-- [[MOS:BIO]] – Nacionaliteti: shteti ne te cilin personazhi ishte shtetas ne kohen kur u be i famshem. Mercury, sic thuhet ne artikull, u be i famshem si shtetas Britanik --> Kengetar dhe Kompozitor i [[Queen (bande)|Queen]].Si nje performues, ai njihej per karakterin ekstravagant dhe vokal te fuqishem kater-[[oktava]] range.<ref>{{harvnb|Independent|2006}}</ref><ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20110615085921/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/article675005.ece Dance: Deux the fandango] via Internet Archive.</ref><ref name="rollingstone.com">[http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/6027/32782 ''RollingStone.com'' – 100 Greatest Singers of All Time].</ref> As a songwriter, Mercury composed many hits for Queen, including "[[Bohemian Rhapsody]]", "[[Killer Queen]]", "[[Somebody to Love (Queen song)|Somebody to Love]]", "[[Don't Stop Me Now]]", "[[Crazy Little Thing Called Love]]", and "[[We Are the Champions]]". In addition to his work with Queen, he led a solo career, and also occasionally served as a producer and guest musician (piano or vocals) for other artists. He died of [[bronchopneumonia]] brought on by [[AIDS]] on 24 November 1991, only one day after publicly acknowledging that he had the disease.
Mercury was a [[Parsi]] born in [[Zanzibar]] and grew up there and in India until his mid-teens. He has been referred to as "[[British Asian|Britain's first Asian]] rock star".<ref name = "Januszczak_1996"/> In 2002, Mercury was placed at number 58 in the BBC's poll of the [[100 Greatest Britons]], in 2006, ''[[Time Asia]]'' named him one of the most influential Asian heroes of the past 60 years,<ref name = "Fitzpatrick_2006"/> and he continues to be voted one of the greatest singers in the history of popular music. In 2005, a poll organised by ''[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]]'' and [[MTV2]] saw Mercury voted the greatest male singer of all time.<ref>[http://www.amiannoying.com/(S(wwb0os55dj4oeh45sg3hgt3g))/collection.aspx?collection=534 list] of ''[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]]'' and [[MTV2|MTV2's]] "22 Greatest Voices" (archived at www.amiannoying.com).</ref> In 2008, ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' editors ranked him number 18 on their list of the 100 greatest singers of all time.<ref name="rollingstone.com"/> In 2009, a ''[[Classic Rock (magazine)|Classic Rock]]'' poll saw him voted the greatest rock singer of all time.<ref name=AFP>''[[Classic Rock (magazine)|Classic Rock]]'', "50 Greatest Singers in Rock", May 2009</ref> [[Allmusic]] has characterised Mercury as "one of rock's greatest all-time entertainers", who possessed "one of the greatest voices in all of music".<ref>{{cite web|last=Greg |first=Prato |url={{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p4899|pure_url=yes}} |title=Freddie Mercury biography |work=AllMusic |accessdate=24 January 2011}}</ref>
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