Freddie Mercury.

I wasn't allowed to listen to rock growing up. I heard this band queen on the radio after I got a car. Started buying albums on cassette, bought all their albums, freakin loved that band. One night I was up late and my parents were asleep and I watched a documentary on PBS about queen. At the end it said it was dedicated to Freddie Mercury with his birthdate and date of death. I admit, I cried.

Still enjoy listening to them once in a while, I've mostly moved on to bands like Muse and Coheed and Cambria...