Vangelis

Personal Info

Known For

Sound

Birthday

1943-03-29

Deathday

2022-05-17

Place of Birth

Volos, Thessaly, Greece

Vangelis

Biography

Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou, best known professionally as Vangelis, was a Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, and orchestral music. He is best known for his Academy Award–winning score for the film Chariots of Fire (1981), and composing scores for the films Blade Runner (1982), Missing (1982), Antarctica (1983), 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992), and Alexander (2004).