He was born in December 1993 in Hradec Králové and fell in love with music as a boy. He performed abroad for the first time in 2012, when the music company Montreux Music invited him to Montreux, Switzerland, for the annual festival held in honor of the life of Freddie Mercury. Milan Devinne still remembers how he amused his parents as a child by jumping out from behind the couch and pretending to be Freddie Mercury singing the hit I Want to Break Free.
Milan Devinne with Sir Brian Harold May, British rock guitarist from the band Queen. In addition to music, he is also interested in astrophysics, and between 2008 and 2012 he was chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University. | Milan Devinne
His relationship with the Queen group remained. Today he sings mainly on foreign stages. “When I started actively dealing with music around the age of 13, I went to parties, weddings, that’s when I realized that this is what I really want to do. By some chance, in 2011 I met Freddie’s former personal assistant, Mr. Peter Freestone, who has been living in the Czech Republic for many years. Word got word of mouth, and today we’ve been working together for eleven years, where we create various projects together and travel around the world,” said Milan Blesku.
The christening of the expected biography of former Freddie Mercury assistant Peter Freestone Right Place, Right Time is accompanied by the album Another Step in Time, on which Milan Devinne and his band recorded 10 songs with Peter’s lyrics about Freddie’s feelings. | Lightning – Luboš Procházka
Peter Freestone, Mercury’s former friend and personal secretary, who spent twelve years of his life with the singer, cooked for him, shopped for him, dressed him, and was with him until the very end when he succumbed to AIDS on November 24, 1991, but he is not Milan’s only link with Queen . He also acted as the only Czech in the film Bohemian Rhapsody (208). “I don’t know if he acted, I flashed in this picture, but I got the chance to be among the friends of the villain Paul Prenter in one scene in Munich. They left me my own name because Milan seemed to them to be as German as Johann or Hans,” the singer said about how he got the opportunity to taste the acting profession, and not once.
But the main topic of the interview for Podcast Blesku was Milan’s singing career. He also admitted who inspires him. “I love David Bowieof course the band Queen, Kelly Family, Dire Straits, on the Czech Olympic stage… Mostly the seventies, eighties of the West, I also love the music of the forties,” he said. For him, music remained what motivated him to endure even the covid wave, which stopped many of his performances. “Before, we had many successful projects linked abroad. Due to covid, contacts have also decreased – many people have realized that they don’t want to do it anymore. We are starting from scratch,” he admitted, adding that he has a performance in Barcelona ahead of him and is dealing with an offer from a symphony orchestra in Italy.
Milan Devinne (*December 21, 1993) is a Czech singer with German roots, occasional actor and event producer. The only Czech who appeared in the film Bohemian Rhapsody alongside Rami Malek and Alan Leech. The recipient of the award for the global project in the fight against AIDS Tinanic Freddie Aids. | Shine – Tonda Tran
One of Milan’s new projects is to be an album with Czech lyrics. “I have always gravitated to foreign countries, I love to travel. However, I realized that many listeners in the Czech Republic want to connect to the text, to get more into the depth of the topic, so I decided to start singing in Czech as well. We are preparing an album reflecting our feelings, views of what is happening around us. I don’t mean politics, we are more focused on nature, on musician’s feelings. It’s the first time like this.’
If he tried a musical too, by chance he became the Terminator’s wedding singer Vémoly, or how he imitated David Bowie and came to his band, is what Milan Devinne confided in this episode of the Blesku Podcast.
