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Before anything, if you are interested
in asking me any kind of questions, making a comment or a suggestion, or
simply getting in touch with me, you can do it by e-mail or MSN to
AndresGuazzelli@hotmail.com,
and by ICQ to 47431016. Thanks!
My name is Andrés Guazzelli from Mar del Plata, Argentina. I’ve been studying music theory for
14 years
and I started learning vocal technique and piano seven years ago. I’m one of
those "psychotic fans" of Queen, who are always trying to know and learn
as much as possible about it. I’m not used to collecting photos, magazines
or posters, because all that stuff has hardly any value for me. What I’m
really interested in is getting the biggest quantity of audio files
possible.
I haven’t been a Queen
fan since long ago. I got to know Queen in 1984, the year I was born,
because in Argentina, after their visit in 1981, their music was listened
to by many people. From those times, I remember 'I Want To Break Free', 'We
Are The Champions', 'We Will Rock You', 'Bohemian Rhapsody', 'Another One
Bits The Dust', 'Radio Ga Ga', "Don’t Stop Me Now', and 'Love of My Life',
which were the most popular themes back in those days. I became a true fan
of Queen less than two years ago. On November 28, 2000, I asked a friend
to lend me 'Killer Queen' and 'Bohemian Rhapsody', which were the themes
that my other friends kept talking about. (It was obvious, I did not
remember that those "Galileos" and "Mama mias" were from a song called
Bohemian Rhapsody). After listening to Killer Queen, my mind could not
stop thinking about it. I fell in love with that song, and of course ,
with Freddie Mercury’s voice. What really called my attention from that
song (and made me love it), was Freddie’s phrase in falsetto: "Caviar and
cigarettes, well versed in etiquette". I spent hours and hours listening
to that part, with that particular sonority Fred’s falsetto has.
During these last two
years, I‘ve committed myself to analyzing Queen’s music in depth, and as I
have been singing since I was a little boy, I’ve been especially
interested in Freddie Mercury’s voice. After a lot of research, hundreds
and thousands of hours listening to Freddie and company, here we are, at
present, creating a website about the incredible voice of Farookh Bulsara,
A.K.A. Freddie Mercury.
This site has been
created due to my urge to know a little bit more about Freddie, and to
test my knowledge. I‘ve always wanted to know what his highest note was,
as well as his lowest, his mid tone or his passage note. But I could never
find it on Internet; and I thought that many people could be looking for
this information as well. So that is how I came up with the idea of
putting all my knowledge about Freddie Mercury’s phonation system at
everybody’s disposal. Thus, The Voice: Freddy Mercury came into
being. This is my personal tribute to one of my greatest idols, Freddie,
so that other people can appreciate his art as well.
Quite some story, don’t you
think?
Andrés Guazzelli -
September 2002
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