Story highlights The Queen lead singer was a master at modulating his voice, the study found

Mercury died in 1991 of AIDS-related complications

(CNN) Freddie Mercury's voice was easy come, easy go, little high, little low, and now a group of researchers have delved into how amazing it was.

The team of Austrian, Czech and Swedish authors used archival recordings to delve into the sound of the man whose voice has been described as "a force of nature with the velocity of a hurricane."

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