Vangelis

Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou ( ; 29 March 1943 – 17 May 2022), known professionally as Vangelis ( ;  ), was a Greek musician and composer. His music was electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, and orchestral. He was best known for his Academy Award-winning score to Chariots of Fire (1981), as well as for composing scores to the movies Blade Runner (1982), Missing (1982), Antarctica (1983), The Bounty (1984), 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992), and Alexander (2004).

He also composed music for documentaries such as Cosmos: A Personal Voyage by Carl Sagan. He was born in Agria, a coastal town in Magnesia, Thessaly of the Hellenic State (present-day Greece) and raised in Athens. His career began in 1963.

Vangelis died on 17 May 2022 at a hospital in Paris, France from heart failure while receiving treatment for COVID-19, aged 79.Vangelis Papathanasiou: Oscar-winning composer passes away at the age of 79

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