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In 1992, France granted him the Chevalier Order of Arts and Letters. He also scored many of the undersea documentaries of Jacques Cousteau. That year he also began working with director Ridley Scott VANGELIS scored his films 'Blade Runner' and '1492: Conquest of Paradise'. Evanghelos Odysseas Papathanassiou 'VANGELIS' - Born Ma(Volos, Greece) - died (Paris, France)

He also scored many of the undersea documentaries o. The theme song topped the US Billboard charts for one week after climbing steadily for one year. In 1982 VANGELIS won the Academy Award for Original Music Score for 'Chariots of Fire'. He and Jon Anderson released several albums together in the 1980s and '90s as JON & VANGELIS.

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Music from the acclaimed 1975 album 'Heaven and Hell' was later used as the theme to the PBS television series Cosmos. Although he never joined the band, he became friends with singer Jon Anderson, with whom he later worked on many occasions.ДЄfter moving to London, VANGELIS signed a deal with RCA Records, set up his own studio (Nemo Studios) and began recording a string of well-regarded electronic albums. At about the same time, he rehearsed for a couple of weeks with another prog-rock band, YES. His first official solo album was 1974's 'Earth'. VANGELIS began his solo work by writing scores to two films by French filmmaker Frederic Rossif in 1973. They had a hit single in Europe called 'Rain and Tears.' The group was disbanded in 1972, although Roussos made several appearances on VANGELIS' later work. During the student riots in 1968 he moved to Paris and formed progressive rock band APHRODITE'S CHILD with Demis Roussos and Loukas Sideras. In the early 1960s he formed the pop group FORMINX (sometimes spelled 'FORMYNX'), which became very popular in Greece. He studied classical music, painting and film direction at the Academy of Fine Arts in Athens. He refused to take traditional piano lessons, and throughout his career he did not have substantial knowledge of reading or writing musical notation. VANGELIS began composing when he was 4 years old, and is largely a self-taught musician. He also composed the anthem of Football World Cup 2002.

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His best known compositions are the Academy Award-winning 1981 theme to the movie 'Chariots of Fire' and the entire score to 'Blade Runner'. VANGELIS (the 'g' is pronounced as a hard 'g', as in 'get') is a world-renowned new age and electronic musician.

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