Freddie Mercury, the singer of famous rock band Queen, was born Farrokh Bulsara in Zanzibar (which now belongs to Tanzania) to a Parsi family that followed the Zoroastrian religion.

Parsi is a zoroastrian community (originally in Iran) that emigrated to India. Freddie's father worked for the British Colonial Office as a civil servant. So, Freddie Mercury was an Asian rock star, a fact scarcely mentioned in the media.