QUEEN Frontman Freddie Mercury's Mother - "I'm So Proud Of Him"
November 20, 2009, 14 years ago
Richard Orchard from Queenzone.com is reporting:
Eighteen years after the death of QUEEN frontman Freddie Mercury, the people of Feltham in west London are preparing to honour him with a commemorative pavement star.
Mercury was born Farrukh Bulsara in Zanzibar, 1946, to parents originally from Mumbai.
He went to boarding school in India, and along with his family moved to west London in 1964 where he enrolled in art college and embarked on his musical career.
The star's 87-year-old mother, Jer Bulsara, spoke to BBC Asian Network's Dil Neiyyar about her memories of her famous son.
In a bungalow in a quiet Midlands cul-de sac, an 87-year-old year woman looks longingly at pictures of her son.
Her eyes moisten and her chest fills with pride as her fingers caress the images.
"I'm so proud of him," she whispers.The pictures are of Freddie Mercury and the woman lingering over them is his mother, Jer Bulsara.
Jer Bulsara has proud recollections of her superstar son. "We were in Feltham for quite some time. Freddie used to come and visit us. So it's nice that he is remembered by the people there," she says.
"He really wanted to come to England. Being a teenager he was aware about these things in Western countries and it attracted him," explains Mrs. Bulsara.
She says that Freddie was a performer from a very early age.
"He used to love playing records all the time and then sing - any sort of music, folk, classical or Indian music."
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