Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou (born 29 March 1943 in Volos,Greece), known professionally as Vangelis, is 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, composing scores for the films Blade Runner, Missing, Antarctica, 1492: Conquest of Paradise, and Alexander, and the use of his music in the PBS documentary Cosmos: A Personal Voyage by Carl Sagan. Read Full BioEvangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou (born 29 March 1943 in Volos,Greece), known professionally as Vangelis, is 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, composing scores for the films Blade Runner, Missing, Antarctica, 1492: Conquest of Paradise, and Alexander, and the use of his music in the PBS documentary Cosmos: A Personal Voyage by Carl Sagan.
After having taken piano lessons, Vangelis began his professional musical career working with several popular bands of the 1960s such as the Forminx and Aphrodite's Child, with the latter's album 666 going on to be recognized as a psychedelic classic. Throughout the 1970s, Vangelis composed music scores for several animal documentaries, including L'Apocalypse des Animaux, La Fête sauvage and Opéra sauvage; the success of these scores brought him into the film scoring mainstream. In the early 1980s, Vangelis formed a musical partnership with Jon Anderson, the lead singer of progressive rock band Yes, and the duo went on to release several albums together as Jon & Vangelis.
In 1981, he composed the score for the Oscar-winning film Chariots of Fire, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Original Score. The soundtrack's single, the film's "Titles" theme, also reached the top of the American Billboard Hot 100 chart and was used as the background music at the London 2012 Olympics winners' medal presentation ceremonies. Vangelis also received acclaim for his synthesizer-based soundtrack for the 1982 film Blade Runner.
Having had a career in music spanning over 70 years and having composed and performed more than 50 albums, Vangelis is considered to be one of the most important figures in the history of electronic music.
Vangelis was born 29 March 1943, in Agria, near Volos, Greece. Largely a self-taught musician, he reportedly began composing at the age of three. His earliest memory is "playing piano, some percussion and whatever else that was available that made a noise. Right from the start, I was only interested in playing my own music". He refused to take traditional piano lessons, and throughout his career did not have substantial knowledge of reading or writing musical notation. When he was six, Vangelis's parents enrolled him at a specialist music school in Athens. He recalls "I was lucky not to go because music schools close doors rather than open them". He studied painting, an art he still practices, at the Athens School of Fine Arts.
In 1989 received Max Steiner Award. France made Vangelis a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in 1992 and promoted to Commander in 2017, as well Chevalier de la Legion d’ Honneur in 2001. In 1993 received music award Apollo by Friends of the Athens National Opera Society. In 1995, Vangelis had a minor planet named after him (6354 Vangelis) by the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center (MPC) at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory; the name was proposed by the MPC's co-director, Gareth V. Williams, rather than by the object's original discoverer, Eugène Joseph Delporte, who died in 1955, long before the 1934 discovery could be confirmed by observations made in 1990. In 1996 and 1997 was awarded at World Music Awards.
NASA conferred their Public Service Medal to Vangelis in 2003. The award is the highest honour the space agency presents to an individual not involved with the American government. Five years later, in 2008, the board of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens voted to make Vangelis an Honorary Doctor, making him Professor Emeritus at their Faculty of Primary Education. In June 2008, the American Hellenic Institute honoured Vangelis with an AHI Hellenic Heritage Achievement Award for his "exceptional artistic achievements" as a pioneer in electronic music and for his lifelong dedication to the promotion of Hellenism through the arts. On 16 September 2013, he received the honour of appearing on the Greek 80 cent postage stamp, as part of a series of six distinguished living personalities of the Greek Diaspora.
After having taken piano lessons, Vangelis began his professional musical career working with several popular bands of the 1960s such as the Forminx and Aphrodite's Child, with the latter's album 666 going on to be recognized as a psychedelic classic. Throughout the 1970s, Vangelis composed music scores for several animal documentaries, including L'Apocalypse des Animaux, La Fête sauvage and Opéra sauvage; the success of these scores brought him into the film scoring mainstream. In the early 1980s, Vangelis formed a musical partnership with Jon Anderson, the lead singer of progressive rock band Yes, and the duo went on to release several albums together as Jon & Vangelis.
In 1981, he composed the score for the Oscar-winning film Chariots of Fire, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Original Score. The soundtrack's single, the film's "Titles" theme, also reached the top of the American Billboard Hot 100 chart and was used as the background music at the London 2012 Olympics winners' medal presentation ceremonies. Vangelis also received acclaim for his synthesizer-based soundtrack for the 1982 film Blade Runner.
Having had a career in music spanning over 70 years and having composed and performed more than 50 albums, Vangelis is considered to be one of the most important figures in the history of electronic music.
Vangelis was born 29 March 1943, in Agria, near Volos, Greece. Largely a self-taught musician, he reportedly began composing at the age of three. His earliest memory is "playing piano, some percussion and whatever else that was available that made a noise. Right from the start, I was only interested in playing my own music". He refused to take traditional piano lessons, and throughout his career did not have substantial knowledge of reading or writing musical notation. When he was six, Vangelis's parents enrolled him at a specialist music school in Athens. He recalls "I was lucky not to go because music schools close doors rather than open them". He studied painting, an art he still practices, at the Athens School of Fine Arts.
In 1989 received Max Steiner Award. France made Vangelis a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in 1992 and promoted to Commander in 2017, as well Chevalier de la Legion d’ Honneur in 2001. In 1993 received music award Apollo by Friends of the Athens National Opera Society. In 1995, Vangelis had a minor planet named after him (6354 Vangelis) by the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center (MPC) at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory; the name was proposed by the MPC's co-director, Gareth V. Williams, rather than by the object's original discoverer, Eugène Joseph Delporte, who died in 1955, long before the 1934 discovery could be confirmed by observations made in 1990. In 1996 and 1997 was awarded at World Music Awards.
NASA conferred their Public Service Medal to Vangelis in 2003. The award is the highest honour the space agency presents to an individual not involved with the American government. Five years later, in 2008, the board of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens voted to make Vangelis an Honorary Doctor, making him Professor Emeritus at their Faculty of Primary Education. In June 2008, the American Hellenic Institute honoured Vangelis with an AHI Hellenic Heritage Achievement Award for his "exceptional artistic achievements" as a pioneer in electronic music and for his lifelong dedication to the promotion of Hellenism through the arts. On 16 September 2013, he received the honour of appearing on the Greek 80 cent postage stamp, as part of a series of six distinguished living personalities of the Greek Diaspora.
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marius molac
Exodus 32
7. Atunci Dumnezeu Tatal a zis către Moise: "Grăbeşte de te pogoară de aici, căci poporul tău, pe care l-ai scos din ţara Egiptului, s-a răzvrătit.
8. Curând s-au abătut de la calea pe care le-am poruncit-o, şi-au făcut un viţel turnat şi s-au închinat la el, aducându-i jertfe şi zicând: "Iată, Israele, dumnezeul tău, care te-a scos din ţara Egiptului!"
9. Şi a mai zis Domnul către Moise: "Eu Mă uit la poporul acesta şi văd că este popor tare de cerbice;
10. Lasă-Mă dar acum să se aprindă mânia Mea asupra lor, să-i pierd şi să fac din tine un popor mare!"
11. Moise (mama) însă a rugat pe Domnul Dumnezeul său şi a zis: "Să nu se aprindă, Doamne, mânia Ta asupra poporului Tău (puii din varful copacului, din padurea in flacari), pe care l-ai scos din ţara Egiptului cu putere mare şi cu braţul Tău cel înalt,
12. Ca nu cumva să zică Egiptenii: I-a dus la pieire, ca să-i ucidă în munţi şi să-i şteargă de pe fata pământului. Întoarce-Ţi iuţimea mâniei Tale, milostiveşte-Te şi nu căuta la răutatea poporului Tău.
13. Adu-ţi aminte de Avraam, de Isaac şi de Iacov, robii Tăi, cărora Te-ai jurat Tu pe Tine Însuţi, zicând: Voi înmulţi foarte tare neamul vostru, ca stelele cerului; şi tot pământul acesta, de care v-am vorbit, îl voi da urmaşilor voştri şi-l vor stăpâni în veci!"
14. Atunci a abătut Domnul pieirea ce zisese s-o aducă asupra poporului Său.
15. După aceea Moise, întorcându-se; s-a pogorât din munte, cu cele două table ale legii în mână, scrise pe amândouă părţile lor - pe o parte şi pe alta erau scrise.
16. Tablele acestea erau lucrul lui Dumnezeu şi scrierea era scrierea lui Dumnezeu, săpată pe table.
17. Atunci, auzind Iosua glasul poporului răsunând, a zis către Moise: "În tabără se aud strigăte de război".
18. Iar Moise a zis: "Acesta nu este glas de biruitori, nici glas de biruiţi; ci eu aud glas de oameni beti".
19. Iar după ce s-a apropiat de tabără, el a văzut viţelul şi jocurile şi, aprinzându-se de mânie, a aruncat din mâinile sale cele două table şi le-a sfărâmat sub munte.
20. Apoi luând viţelul, pe care-l făcuseră ei, l-a ars în foc, l-a făcut pulbere şi, presărându-l în apă, a dat-o să o bea fiii lui Israel.
30. Iar a doua zi a zis Moise către popor: "Aţi făcut păcat mare; mă voi sui acum la Domnul să văd nu cumva voi şterge păcatul vostru".
31. Şi s-a întors Moise la Domnul şi a zis: "O, Doamne, poporul acesta a săvârşit păcat mare, făcându-şi dumnezeu de aur.
32. Rogu-mă acum, de vrei să le ierţi păcatul acesta, iartă-i; iar de nu, şterge-mă şi pe mine din cartea Ta, în care m-ai scris!"
marius molac
Matei 10
8. (...) în dar aţi luat, în dar să daţi.
9. Să nu aveţi nici aur, nici arginţi, nici bani în cingătorile voastre;
10. Nici traistă pe drum, nici două haine, nici încălţăminte, nici toiag;
că vrednic este lucrătorul de hrana sa.
11. În orice cetate (...) veţi intra, cercetaţi cine este în el vrednic şi acolo rămâneţi până ce veţi ieşi.
12. Şi intrând în casă, uraţi-i, zicând: "Pace casei acesteia".
13. Şi dacă este casa aceea vrednică, vină pacea voastră peste ea. Iar de nu este vrednică, pacea voastră întoarcă-se la voi.
Pablo Rodriguez
QUE GRAN CANCIÓN , QUE MÚSICA GLORIOSA , ME EMOCIONA
Robbin Francis
I just love this
Hamid.R Hoseyni
it reminds me of disney's atlantis cartoon😍😍😍😍
LLave Oceans
muy buenooooo
me hiso acordar a Malena de Ennio Morricone xd
Javier Pérez
precioso tema de un verdadero GENIO de la música electrónica
Ana María Martínez
Si hay una música para comenzar el día, es ésta. Es espectacular.❤🎧😚🎶
Graciela Elemberg
For my Inmortal love Ioni❤🙏
discobaby795
Bellísimo.
Eli Silva Hellen
Amo todas ❤️️
Alvaro Vázquez
Una música que sería lindo tener en mente cuando se hiciese el viaje final... ese viaje que no se sabe si va a llevar a algún lado, o que si sólo nos convertirá en unas cenizas inertes... Un último recuerdo de esta tormentosa vida.