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# Vangelis

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Vangelis (pronounced to rhyme with "angle" not "angel") was born on 1943 in Greece. He is a [new age]? music star and one of most brilliant Electronic music composers. His real name is Evangelos Odyssey Papathanassiou. Although he has written several soundtracks in the last few decades and started composing when he was 4 years-old, he is largely a self taught musician and he does not have substantial knowledge on reading or writing musical notation. Being a keyboard player in many Greek rock bands, including the legendary [Aphrodite's Child]? alongside [Demis Roussos]?, he began his solo career in early 1970s. He is best known by his Oscar-winning score to the Chariots of Fire and [1492: Conquest of Paradise]? and Blade Runner. Some of his other famous works are: L'Apocalypse des Animaux, Heaven and Hell, China, Antarctica, Voices and the Friends of Mr Cairo (with singer [Jon Anderson]? of Yes?).

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