Freddie
Mercury (real name Farrokh Bulsara) was born on Thursday September 5th 1946 on
the small spice island of Zanzibar. His parents, Bomi and Jer Bulsara, were
both Parsee (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.
As
St Peter's was an English school, the sports played there were typically
English. Freddie loathed cricket and long-distance running, but he liked
hockey, sprint and boxing. At the age of 10 he became a school champion in
table tennis. Freddie was not only a good sportsman, his artistic skills were
incomparable. At the
age of twelve he was awarded the school trophy as Junior All-rounder. He loved
art, and was always sketching for friends or relatives.
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