Freddie Mercury's family tell of singer's pride in his Asian heritage
The Daily Telegraph / Shekhar Bhatia
16-Oct-2011

His background made his sense of identity complex. Being a Parsee meant he identified more with his Persian ancestry than India, where his parents were brought up and he was educated. Hurtfully, there were people who said he was burying his Asian roots.

Roger Cooke, his brother in law, said: "To an English mind, Asian means Indian. It doesn't in Freddie's particular case, he was Persian by ancestry.

He was accused of denying his Indian heritage. I don't think he ever did, but if he did, it would have been because he was Persian."

His mother added: "Freddie was a Parsee and he was proud of that, but he wasn't particularly religious."

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