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Greek composer and musician (1943–2022)

For other uses, see Vangelis (disambiguation).

Musical artist

Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou (Greek: Ευάγγελος Οδυσσέας Παπαθανασίου, pronounced[eˈvaɲɟelosoðiˈseaspapaθanaˈsi.u]; 29 March 1943 – 17 May 2022), known professionally as Vangelis (vang-GHEL-iss; Greek: Βαγγέλης, pronounced[vaɲˈɟelis]), was a Greek musician, composer, and producer of electronic, progressive, ambient, and classical orchestral music.

He composed the Academy Award-winning score to Chariots of Fire (1981), as well as for the films Blade Runner (1982), Missing (1982), Antarctica (1983), The Bounty (1984), 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992), and Alexander (2004), and the 1980 PBS documentary series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage by Carl Sagan.^[1][2]

Born in Agria and raised in Athens, Vangelis began his career in the 1960s as a member of the rock bands the Forminx and Aphrodite's Child; the latter's al