From 1979 to 1986, Vangelis performed in a duo with Yes vocalist Jon Anderson, released several albums as Jon and Vangelis.
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In 1975, Vangelis relocated to London where built his home recording facility named Nemo Studios and released a series of successful and influential albums for RCA Records, including: Heaven and Hell (1975), Albedo 0.39 (1976), Spiral (1977) and China (1979). He also released his first solo albums during this time, and performed as a solo artist. Vangelis first settled in Paris, and gained initial recognition for his scores to the Frédéric Rossif animal documentaries L'Apocalypse des Animaux, La Fête sauvage, and Opéra sauvage. īorn in Agria and raised in Athens, Vangelis began his career in the 1960s as a member of the rock bands The Forminx and Aphrodite's Child the latter's album 666 (1972) is now recognised as a progressive- psychedelic rock classic. He was best known for his Academy Award-winning score to Chariots of Fire (1981), as well as for composing scores to the films Blade Runner (1982), Missing (1982), Antarctica (1983), The Bounty (1984), 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992), and Alexander (2004), and for the use of his music in the 1980 PBS documentary series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage by Carl Sagan. Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou ( Greek: Ευάγγελος Οδυσσέας Παπαθανασίου 29 March 1943 – ), known professionally as Vangelis ( / v æ ŋ ˈ ɡ ɛ l ɪ s/ vang- GHEL-iss Greek: Βαγγέλης ), was a Greek composer and arranger of electronic, progressive, ambient, and classical orchestral music.
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