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Vangelis, the Greece-born composer and electronic music pioneer who won an Academy Award for his synthesizer-laden score for the Oscar best picture winner Chariots of Fire, has died. He was 79.
Vangelis also added a Crumar Compac-piano and a Yamaha CP-80 to his piano set-up. [133] Vangelis' favourite keyboard was the Yamaha CS-80 polyphonic synthesizer, which he began using from 1977 and which allowed him to employ a distinctive and expressive vibrato technique by varying the pressure exerted on the key. He would use this instrument ...
Vangelis, the Greek electronic composer who wrote the unforgettable Academy Award-winning score for the film “Chariots of Fire” and music for dozens of other movies, documentaries and TV ...
Vangelis, the electronic-music pioneer who won an Oscar for “Chariots of Fire” and composed such other landmark film scores as “Blade Runner,” died Tuesday, the Athens News Agency reported.
See You Later is an album by the Greek electronic composer Vangelis, released in November 1980. [2] It breaks quite violently with the style he employed in the late 1970s and later, relying much more on vocals and being more experimental and returning (in many respects) to his early 1970s work like Earth or 666. [3]
As the title suggests, Vangelis was inspired by NASA's space mission of Juno to Jupiter. It includes sounds from the same mission (#1, #17), and Angela Gheorghiu (#9, #13, #16). The mission and meaning of the album is "named so after Hera (in Roman Juno ), who, according to Greek mythology , was the mother of Gods and humans and the wife of ...
The Greece-born composer was best known for his score for 1981's "Chariots of Fire," which earned him an Oscar and a No. 1 on the Hot 100.
Vangelis and cast members watch the Olympic torch pass the Gielgud Theater, London 26 July 2012. Vangelis (b. 29 March 1943, d. 17 May 2022) was a Greek musician, composer, and producer. He began his music career in the 1960s with the Greek progressive rock band Aphrodite's Child and in the 1970s began composing electronic music .