Quick Facts About Vangelis
- Born
- March 29, 1943
- Died
- May 17, 2022
- Nationality
- Greece
- Profession
- Film Score Composer
- Notable works
- Paradigms of Combinatorial Optimization
- Known for
- Mythodea, 666, Blade Runner, 1492 – Conquest of Paradise, Chariots of Fire
About Vangelis
Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou, mainly known professionally as Vangelis, was a Greek composer, arranger, performer and record producer. He released material of wide musical genres such as electronic music, progressive rock, ambient, and classical orchestral music. He is primarily known for his film scores, composing the Academy Award-winning score to Chariots of Fire (1981), as well as composing the scores of 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.
Biography source:
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