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    VangelisGreek composer
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    Born29 March 1943 · Agria, Greece
    Died17 May 2022 (aged 79) · Paris, France
    InstrumentsKeyboards · synthesizers
    LabelsUniversal · RCA · Atlantic · Sony · Warner Bros. · Polydor · Deutsche Grammophon · Decca
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    Early life

    Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou was born on 29 March 1943 in Agria, a coastal town in Magnesia, Thessaly, Greece, and raised in Athens. His father Odysseus worked in property and was an amateur sprinter; Va… See more

    Career

    After the Forminx split, Vangelis spent the next two years mostly studio-bound as a composer and producer. He wrote the score to several Greek films–My Brother, the Traffic Policeman (1963), 5,000 Lies (1966) by … See more

    Personal life and death

    For a musician of his stature, very little is known about Vangelis' personal life; and he rarely gave interviews to journalists. In 2005, he stated that he was "never interested" in the "decadent lifestyle" of his band days, … See more

    Musical style and sensibility

    The musical style of Vangelis is diverse; although he primarily used electronic music instruments, which characterize electronic music, his music has been described as a mixture of electronica, classical (his music was often … See more

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