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Vangelis

1943 - 2022

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Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou (Greek: Ευάγγελος Οδυσσέας Παπαθανασίου, pronounced [eˈvaɲɟelos oðiˈseas papaθanaˈsi.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. 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 album 666 (1972) is recognised as a progressive-psychedelic rock classic. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vangelis is the 68th most popular composer (down from 59th in 2019), the 57th most popular biography from Greece (down from 54th in 2019) and the most popular Greek Composer.

Vangelis is most famous for his work on the soundtrack to the film "Chariots of Fire" which won an Academy Award for Best Original Score.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Vangelis ranks 68 out of 1,451. Before him are Erik Satie, Gabriel Fauré, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Henry Purcell, Dieterich Buxtehude, and Carl Orff. After him are Astor Piazzolla, Alessandro Scarlatti, Alexander Borodin, François Couperin, George Gershwin, and Johann Christian Bach.

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Among people born in 1943, Vangelis ranks 12. Before him are Julio Iglesias, Catherine Deneuve, Bobby Fischer, Queen Silvia of Sweden, Betty Williams, and George Harrison. After him are Mick Jagger, Toto Cutugno, Sharon Tate, Michael Mann, Albano Carrisi, and Tarja Halonen. Among people deceased in 2022, Vangelis ranks 7. Before him are Pelé, Mikhail Gorbachev, Pope Benedict XVI, Jiang Zemin, and Jean-Luc Godard. After him are Shinzō Abe, Luc Montagnier, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Leonid Kravchuk, and Ayman al-Zawahiri.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Vangelis ranks 57 out of 1,024. Before him are Apollodorus of Athens (-180), Menander (-342), Antisthenes (-445), Praxiteles (-395), Irene of Athens (752), and Seleucus I Nicator (-358). After him are Polybius (-208), Xanthippe (-500), Constantine II of Greece (1940), Pope Eleutherius (171), Ptolemy II Philadelphus (-308), and Ptolemy III Euergetes (-284).

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Among COMPOSERS In Greece

Among composers born in Greece, Vangelis ranks 1. After him are Mikis Theodorakis (1925), Eleni Karaindrou (1941), Manos Hatzidakis (1925), Spyridon Samaras (1861), Nikos Skalkottas (1904), Nikolaos Mantzaros (1795), Thanos Mikroutsikos (1947), and Andreas Makris (1930).

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