In Brief:
- Freddie Mercury’s Four NFTs will be auctioned on SuperRare for over 75 hours.
- Fund raise will go to AIDS charity trust, Mercury Phoenix Trust.
- Mercury died from AIDS-related pneumonia in 1991.
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) artworks inspired by Freddie Mercury are going to be auctioned for charity funds. Four exclusive digital artworks featuring the legendary singer will be auctioned to raise money for the AIDS charity trust, the Mercury Phoenix Trust.
In this auction, Four non-fungible tokens (NFT) artwork based on Freddie Mercury is being auctioned on the mark of what would have been his 75th birthday. Three of these NFTs show the singer, while the fourth NFT is a dreamlike depiction of a white grand piano with a crown on its stool, surrounded by the pond of swimming goldfish.
Other artists Blake Kathryn, Chad Knight, Mat Maitland, and MBSJQ will be sold in a timed auction on digital art marketplace SuperRare for over 75 hours starting at 8 AM PST on September 20.
The amount which will generate in this auction will be transferred to The Mercury Phoenix Trust, which is an AIDS charity founded by queen members Brian May and Roger Taylor and band manager Jim Beach in the Singer’s memory.
Freddie Mercury may have lived a relatively short life, but in that time he changed the music world forever. Those he touched with his talent, passion and incredible stage persona will forever be in his debt. That is what makes this collection all the more special. Mercury would have turned 75 on Sept. 5. He died from AIDS-related pneumonia in 1991.
“Freddie Mercury left a very simple creative brief to the world on his passing. ‘You can do whatever you want with my work, just never make me boring’,” SuperRare and the Mercury Phoenix Trust said.
