Category: Music

Our dear friend Feritta is featured in an interview on Broad Tube Music Channel Feritta grew up in a family where education and family duty came first but her passion has always been creating in one form or another. While most of today’s stars have parents pushing them into the limelight it was quite the… Continue reading Feritta–Set Myself Free: In Conversation

The Symphony Orchestra of India’s SOI Music Academy celebrated the graduation ceremony of five of their academy students last Saturday (April 13th 2019).  Among these was 15 year old Leah Divecha, who started learning the Violin at the tender age of six and was enrolled in the pilot project of the NCPA Western Classical Music… Continue reading Leah Divecha Graduates from the Symphony Orchestra of India

Conductor Zubin Mehta will not join the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra on a U.S. tour that was to be his last here as orchestra leader, a step attributed to Mehta’s health by tour organizers who announced a replacement conductor Friday. The tour — six stops including concerts at New York’s Carnegie Hall on Feb. 3, West… Continue reading Ailing Zubin Mehta to skip farewell U.S. tour with Israel Philharmonic

In the countdown to the cinema release of Bohemian Rhapsody, this short film looks at the early years of Freddie’s life including his birthplace of Zanzibar, his schooling and first musical endeavours in India and his move to London. Directed by Simon Lupton. Freddie Mercury; lead singer of Queen and solo artist in his own… Continue reading Freddie Mercury – The Early Years

With Bohemian Rhapsody, the film about Queen’s eccentric frontman Freddie Mercury, just around the corner, discourse about Mercury’s sexuality has rocked the internet. Some folks say that Mercury was gay, some say he was bisexual, some say he was queer and some say that he didn’t like being defined by labels so we shouldn’t be… Continue reading We Always Talk About Freddie Mercury’s Sexuality, But What About His Confusing Racial Identity?

With the release of a new film about the British rock band Queen, the spotlight has fallen again on the life of its legendary lead singer, Freddie Mercury. His flamboyant stage presence, outlandish costumes, memorable hits, fluid sexuality, and death from an Aids-related illness at just 45 are defining memories of the British rock scene… Continue reading Freddie Mercury’s complex relationship with Zanzibar

Below is a video clip and an audio interview with Parsi youth in the United Kingdom, speaking about the impact of Freddie Mercury in popular culture. This is in a lead-up to biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody” being released on November 2nd, 2018.