The team’s report, published in the journal of the British Voice Association, is, expectedly, filled with abstruse audiological terms like “subharmonic phonation” and “mean fundamental frequency modulation rate”. Then, particularly intrigued by the distorted notes Mercury produced to create his signature growl sounds, the team did a unique simulation exercise: selecting rock singer Daniel Zangger-Borch to simulate Mercury’s singing voice, they filmed his larynx with a high-speed endoscopic camera as he pushed his vocal system into overdrive. The scientists first analysed a body of Mercury’s music, including Freddie Mercury: The Solo Collection and 23 other recordings. Last year, a team of European scientists set out to discover a scientific explanation for the magic of Mercury’s voice – or specifically, as they put it, “to develop an acoustical analysis of his voice production…based on a perceptual and quantitative analysis of his sound recordings”. Farrokh Bulsara (Freddie Mercury) and members of his school band, the Hectics. To try and disguise the problem, he grew his trademark mustache, and even developed the poignant habit of holding his hand up to his mouth when talking to people. This was paradoxical, because he had been terribly self-conscious about his teeth since childhood (having been cruelly nicknamed Bucky by schoolmates) – and yet he refused to get orthodontic treatment to fix his malocclusion, fearing that it would rob his voice of its special magic. Mercury believed it had something to do with his buck teeth, and the special resonance that their configuration gave to his voice. It was only in later years that Mercury’s voice developed fully into what rock journalist Caroline Sullivan once described as “a force of nature, with the velocity of a hurricane” – a voice that cut, almost God-like, through Queen’s mix of Brian May’s guitar, cranked up to 10, and Roger Taylor’s blasting drums.īut what exactly was it that made Mercury’s voice so unique? In his first band at school in Panchgani, the Hectics, the buck-toothed Mercury was known as a crazy singing piano-player who was inspired by Little Richard – but the band’s real star was another child named Bruce Murray.
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