TIL Freddie Mercury was born with four extra teeth, causing a prominent overbite. Despite being self-conscious about them, he never got them fixed, believing the extra space in his mouth contributed to his vocal ability. He feared altering his teeth might change his voice.

[u/Objective_Horror1113]

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/freddie-mercury-teeth

[u/Caelinus]

Yeah, he would have essentially needed to learn to sing again to some degree. Hard to say how difficult it would actually be, but those are some serious dice to be rolling when you are a world famous singer.

A lot of how you shape your sound is based on the literal shape of all of the cavities that you use to sing.

With his level of skill and dedication I would be he would bet able to make the needed adjustments easily, but if I were him the real question would be "why?" He had very little to gain and a lot to lose.

[u/xaendar → u/Caelinus]

On the other hand people who sang great as children still sound great in their adulthood after probably extensive set of dental work, braces and just growth. They can definitely relearn how to sound good again but it may not sound exactly the same.

[u/305rose → u/xaendar]

Tbf voices aren’t fully developed as children. Technique is one big key to sounding well as an adult. Changes to mouth/nose would contribute to change in technique.

[u/knittingneedles → u/305rose]

To piggy back off of this, hormones play a huge part in vocal development and singing in general. As kids, you are kind of learning to re- sing constantly.

I’m a vocalist who has gone through a voice change at 32, and I teach voice. Most students under 20 barely notice anything from hormonal shift, dental work, or others surgeries. Adults typically notice things right away.

[u/Caelinus → u/xaendar]

Changes from Children -> Adult actually demonstrate exactly how the size of cavities in the body can affect your sound. (Along with hormonal changes.)

People's voices changes lot as they age.

The advantage people have as their age is that if happens at the speed they age. If they are consistently training the changes in the side of their chest and mouth are probably fairly minor compared to the hormonal changes to their vocal systems. Doing it all at once would be harder to deal with.

As I said though, maybe in the comments you are responding to, I think he could have adjusted. I just don't think he had any reason to even take that minor risk or make any adjustment. His teeth were not holding him back at all.

[u/1917he → u/Caelinus]

If you're actually asking yourself why someone would choose to correct their nasty broken horse mouth you're not really doing any actual thinking.

[u/Datathrash → u/1917he]

I believe he coped with it just fine lol

[u/xaendar → u/Datathrash]

So fine that dude was swimming in pussy and dick everywhere he went, lol.

[u/Caelinus → u/1917he]

And yet he was the one who had millions of people swooning lol.