Science has confirmed what you already know, Freddie Mercury was an awesome singer.

“Freddie Mercury was one of the twentieth century’s best-known singers of commercial contemporary music,” explains the paper. “This study presents an acoustical analysis of his voice production and singing style, based on perceptual and quantitative analysis of publicly available sound recordings.”

“What they discovered was that he likely employed subharmonics, a singing style where the ventricular folds vibrate along with the vocal folds,” writes CoS. “Most humans never speak or sing with their ventricular folds unless they’re Tuvan throat singers, so the fact that this popular rock vocalist was probably dealing with subharmonics is pretty incredible.”

In a nutshell?  Freddie was doing stuff that Luciano Pavarotti probably would have trouble doing.  Strong!

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Listen to the isolated vocals for Bohemian Rhapsody below!

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