Yup. its true, he was Iranian

[Blue]

http://www.freddie-mercury.net/fred.gif

Freddie Mercury was born Farrokh Bulsara on Thursday September 5th 1946 on the small spice island of Zanzibar. His parents, Bomi and Jer Bulsara, were both Persian. His father, Bomi, was a civil servant, working as a High Court cashier for the British Government. Freddie's sister, Kashmira, was born in 1952. In 1954, at the age of eight, Freddie was shipped to St Peter's English boarding school in Panchgani, about fifty miles outside Bombay. It was there his friends began to call him Freddie, a name the family also adopted.

[OSTAD POOYA]

I always knew he was persian but had the impression that his name was
FEREYDOON MEYKHANI and then that became Freddie Mercury.

[ManiF]

Doustan

Freddie Mercury was not Persian meaning Iranian. He was a PARSI from Inida. Parsis are Indians of Persian origin ( 2000 years ago ,they migrated to India :) >>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1112000.stm

[Dr Fish]

yeah ManiF is right...

Nevertheless Freddie was a legend...

[dashali]

I thought he was from QAZVIN :iran1:

[dariush-44]

who is this guy?? I'm srry but I'm not fimilar!

[Blue]

how the hell did you find this thread? i posted this back in 1954

[Baradar]

Doustan

Freddie Mercury was not Persian meaning Iranian. He was a PARSI from Inida. Parsis are Indians of Persian origin ( 2000 years ago ,they migrated to India :) >>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1112000.stm

Yes he was Parsi.
Parsis are Zoroastrians of Persian ascent who left Iran around the 9th century AD taking with them the eternal fire from the Istakhr temple, tired of the pressures and hardship given to them by the Arab-muslim rulers: they couldn't own their own land, they couldn't access gouvernamental positions, they couldn't even ride horses, they were threated as lower class citizens or sometimes heretics fire worshipers...!!
They are still proud of their Persian background and heritage. They speak an old Persian language actually.

Freddy Mercury was a brilliant artist regardless of his origin. Shame he had to leave us so soon...

[Ali_Europe]

Doustan

Freddie Mercury was not Persian meaning Iranian. He was a PARSI from Inida. Parsis are Indians of Persian origin ( 2000 years ago ,they migrated to India :) >>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1112000.stmthey didn't move to India 2000 years ago, the main part of them escaped to India after Arab invasion and islamization of Iran, the main reason for lot of them to move to India was to keep the Iranian zoastrian religion and culture alive and in a way they maybe are connected stronger to ancient Iran than lot of today Iranians!!!!

I'm not trying to turn back the time, things happened in Iran and Iran changed and is no more the Iran of 2000 years ago like lot of other societies, but I think saying Parsi's aren't Persian isn't fair, since they are really keeping the Persian tradition and culture alive, which lot of other today Iranians probally forget! I think they deserve more respect from us, since I can imagine they had hard time keeping the culture and religion a live and always been a minority in a new society

[Pouya82]

Dorood be agha Farokh.

Freddie was great in Queen and now that Queen is touring in europe/world with that Roger something I wish I could go and see the concert here in Stockholm. :iran2:

[hapali]

I thought he was from QAZVIN :iran1:

lol

:D :D

[kouroshpersia]

how the hell did you find this thread? i posted this back in 1954

lmfao
rofls

[highflyerreborn]

how the hell did you find this thread? i posted this back in 1954

hhahahahahaa

[Baradar]

I thought he was from QAZVIN :iran1:

LOL!!

His ancestors may have come from Qazvin originaly!
Don't Azarbaijanis claim that Zartosht was from Azarbaijan?

[dariush-44]

how the hell did you find this thread? i posted this back in 1954
Blue jan, I found this thread by the "who's online" ! I was looking to see who was online and saw that a guest was looking at this thread and the title was very interesting so I decided to visit it. LoL in the past few days I've brought back alot of threads from the grave by just the who's online thing :D