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24. He Grew Up in Zanzibar and India

The house where Freddie Mercury was born — in Stone Town, Zanzibar City, Zanzibar Archipelago. Moongateclimber/Wikimedia Commons.

Though born in Zanzibar, at the time part of the British Empire, he was sent to study at St. Peter’s boarding school, a British-style school, near Bombay, India. There, he took piano lessons and formed a band with some of his peers. As a teenager, he returned to his family’s home in Zanzibar.

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