Best known for his lush, Oscar-winning score to the 1981
film Chariots of Fire, Vangelis was among the most
successful and admired electronic composers of his era.
Born Evangelos Odyssey Papathanassiou in Valos, Greece on
March 29, 1943, his nascent musical talent was recognized
at an early age, but he refused to take piano lessons,
instead teaching himself. After high school he formed the
early-1960s pop group Formynx, soon the most popular act in
Greece. After achieving superstardom at home, Vangelis
relocated to Paris in 1968, and was in France at the time
of the student riots; unable to go back home, he formed the
progressive rock band Aphrodite's Child with fellow Greek
expatriates Demis Roussos and Loukas Sideras, soon scoring
a major European hit with the s More...
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