Evanghelos Odyssey Papathanassiou was born 29th of March 1943 in a small town near Volos, Greece. From an early age he was noted as a child progidy and started playing the piano at the young age of 4. He gave his first public preformance at the and age of six, in which he played his own compositions. More popularly known as Vangelis, he is now one of the most popular and well known keyboardists in the world. He composes and performs mainly instrumental music and his film scores are some of the most memorable in history. During his career he has flirted with many genres styles and has become more and more difficult to fit into a specific genre. His music has been filed as synthesizer music, new age, progressive rock, Symphonic rock, Space music, electronic music and even ambiance.

Vangelis first joined a band uring his years as a student. At that time he was an important part of a successful Greek pop band called the Forminx. After they split and Vangelis left university he moved to Paris in the late sixties while forming the band Aphrodite's Child, together with singer Demis Roussos and drummer Lucas Sideras. They scored many hits all over Europe.

In 1970 the group broke up and Vangelis started a solo career. In 1975 he moved to London where he set up the legendary Nemo studio and this is where he produced and composed many of his most famous albums. He is an extremely private man, and rarely speaks to the press, and his concert dates are rare. He is private to the extent that to even his greatest of fans, little is known of him as a person.

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