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Vangelis

also recorded as Evangelos Papathanassiou

Greek composer of electronic, new age and classical

Greece · 1943-03-29 – 2022-05-17

Vangelis is credited on 5,231 releases across 912 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1966–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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5,231

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NOTE: If credited as Evangelos Papathanassiou or any other name with Papathanassiou, please use that entry!
Greek composer and arranger of electronic, progressive, ambient, and classical orchestral music (born on 29 March 1943 in Agria near Volos, Greece; died on 17 May 2022 in Paris, France (aged 79) from SARScov2.). He was also a painter.
He started writing music when he was 4 and performed his first live concert at age 6. He started painting aged 7. His first exhibition, of 70 paintings, was held in 2003 at Almudin in Valencia, Spain. It then toured South America until the end of 2004.
He started his music career as a member of The Forminx. In the 1960s, he was a founding member of Aphrodite's Child along with Demis Roussos and Lucas Sideras. He also enjoyed succes as part of Jon & Vangelis early in the 1980s. A talented composer, producer and musician, Vangelis is famous for composing soundtracks to films such as Blade Runner, Chariots Of Fire and 1492: Conquest Of Paradise. Vangelis has made over 60 albums, many of them collaborations.

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