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Vangelis

Last album: October 25, 1990
First published: May 29, 2009
Downloads: 3361 albums downloaded

Biography

Vangelis (Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou, Greek: Βαγγέλης Παπαθανασίου) is a world-renowned electronic composer and musician. He was born on March 29, 1943 in Volos, Greece. He is best known for compositions such as the Academy Award-winning 1981 theme to the movie Chariots of Fire, the entire score to the movie Blade Runner and the themes used in the soundtrack of Carl Sagan's Cosmos. His first musical effort was in the late 60s in his country of birth, a locally popular band called Formynx.