Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou (March 29, 1943 - May 17, 2022), known pr… Read Full Bio ↴Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou (March 29, 1943 - May 17, 2022), known professionally as Vangelis, was a Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, new age, 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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BonLaVie James Hsiung BonLaVie
羊群走過水騰騰
海浪翻滾水洋溢
OCEAN FOOTAGE
她是否喜愛浪漫
走她的浪漫一生
她的浪漫海洋一生生命週期
不知她從前由何時開始的生存在地球的海洋水生活
她....海洋....水
是我們的母親
我們的身體裡
流著她的生命
水....水之源....生命之源
而且
地球萬物
不可缺少
人類
中文繁體字裡
蹟....跡....
鬼....軌....
道....渡....
人............
海洋足印
生命軌跡
人....責任
債....人類在世界地球一生裡走過
他....劃下的軌跡
離世後他會成為
天上....仍然人間....地獄....鬼....動物
或者其他....
水....世界
水泄....
好自為之....
好好劃自己的軌跡在一期短短生命人生的軌道上
人鬼....傀....
責任....人劃下的軌蹟....將會成為債....
好自為之
瞬間....
時間空間....瞬間
生命瞬間....
瞬間
BonLaVie James Hsiung BonLaVie
海洋
足印
也許
她告訴妳
她是怎樣的走過以前
很長久很長久長長的
歳月
歳月消逝也飛逝
她
也許
不喜歡今天的日子
誰帶來了今天
污煙漳氣
吵吵鬧鬧的日子
也許也許
她
海洋
走過以前的日子
Ocean Footage
2017-12-15
11:36
鶴晴空間
知道嗎
知不知道
一個人
為何有抑鬱症
因為
它要讓你知道
他和她
也要給妳知道
感同身受
我
得了
抑鬱症之後
我知道了
它
天空。大地。水源。空氣。陽光
當一切都無能為力
日子
太久了
我們都得到
得到了
抑鬱症
我們都知道了
感同身受
15-5-2021
15：29
鶴晴空間
原來
海浪翻過
一群人走過
馬路車輛經過
都一樣萬馬千軍
長江後浪推前浪
然後
一切均平靜
無論
地老天荒
海枯石爛
草原群牛奔走
斑馬成群
鹿在土上跑
飛躍
揚起沙塵
水裡魚游成群
天空飛鳥
蝙蝠
歲月
其實
萬物需要生活
需要一個家
食物吃什麼
互相食噉
然後
一切平靜
像什麼都
沒有發生過
世界走到盡頭之後
海浪翻過之後
人生數十年之後
你會否後悔
你在此土地上曾經作過什麼事
28-12-2020
11：34
鶴晴空間
我
從出生那天
便已經開始
飲水。開水。凍滾水
奶水。乳
以後一直
每一天都
飲水
沐浴。淋浴。沖涼。洗澡
喝飲品
湯。果汁
游泳
雨天被雨淋濕
從
那天出生起
到
那天寫這篇留言
我
幾十年的生命
如果
地球有動物生命三億年
我的只匆匆數十年人生
不理輪迴
不管前生是什麼生命體
不知今生之後為何物
如果
地球水源三十億年
那麼水源三十億歲壽命
水
它在表演
水化淡化雲霧冰霜雪雨
水會落雹
水
隱形又不是隱形
水透明
日光月光能穿過穿入水
幾十年的生命人
幾十億年生命水
四面八方週圍鎖事太多
有關係與對生命人類沒關係
只記今生好做人
還我自己本來清淨
牽纏的可能是因果關係
無論如何
我
只記今生餘下日子好好做人
不被任何牽連
纏縛
海洋足跡
我只一生數十年足跡
總要很快速無常之中退出生命
到不知曉的重生
或者沒有
這是我的數十年生命故事及這數年字裡行間的我的短暫瞬間一刻一刻留在紙上電路上的筆跡累積
25-10-2020
13：44
James Hsiung
記得以前的日子。
在。
酒吧。酒廊。卡拉OK。
工作的日子。
一邊工作。
一面娛樂。
猜拳。飲酒。
到收工後。
約埋三五男男女女。
搭乘早班大船。
往。
長洲。
或。
有些時候。
於工作中。
認識了幾位。
公關小姐。
大家酒後帶點酒意。
便又即興組團入長洲。
繼續。延長。
我們在這個不堪的社會裡。
拖延……
在人間。
人世裡。
人生旅途上。
難得的。
邂逅。
難得的緣份。
難得的在人生的一刻。相遇。相知。相交。
雖然是初相識。素未謀面。
但。我們有同理心。
共同的對世事。對世情的無奈。
無可奈何。
我們抵達。
長洲。
先在碼頭租屋。
然後。
買。
Gin 酒。Chivas 威士忌。
Vodka 伏特加。Heineken 。喜力啤酒。7up。Soda Water。Coke。Distilled water。
再到長洲街市。
買蟹。蝦。
指。天。椒。
薑。葱。蒜。
昔日。
搭船。
在船裡。船上。
總是。
蕩來蕩去。
高高低低。
坐不穩身。
站不穩脚。
有的頭暈。
有的嘔吐。
當年。
與。
今日。
2016-4-17
12 : 54
BonLaVie James Hsiung BonLaVie
神
真神的一奏演樂
任何任憑妳如何任性
妳你必必然中中了音樂
中了電影電視
中了神道鬼道軌跡各樣種種中的
一矢中的箭靶中的自踩自踏迷幻之一矢中的路露
你妳必然中的中的必然邪邪妳路你路
4-6-2020
12:32
BonLaVie James Hsiung BonLaVie
食也是
不食也是
生如也是
死亦徒然也必然必示是
學也長也老也退也悔也已是晚也也也也是
無論無是無想是是無想論論是無法是無法無辦法是想空想無想空無想無無想無空無有無無無空無空無有無與空與無想與想與空與想空想空想空無無空有色無色都想想透想透一空一實在實在在空在實都只是如是
任憑妳你必必然錯
movement x
移。交义
不動。义义
生如是
死亦。。。。。。。。。如。。。。。。。。。。。是
movement x
4-6-2020
12:39
Kwan Wing Hsiung
水
連綿不絕
水
似水流年
水
水能鑑形
水
淵源不斷
水
天涯海角
水
長流不息
水
水生萬物
水
水影幻象
水
天地循環
水
生命之源
水
魚水之歡
水
金石為開
水
清濁立判
水
水水水水
2018-
BonLaVie James Hsiung BonLaVie
拉雜成軍皇帝夢
招兵買馬奪專權
殺戮戰場悲哀鳴
誰得天下皆罪人
沉重的代價
沉痛的教訓
將永無翻身
永地被輪迴
死生身死生
輪轉不停止
直至無盡期
2018-11-13
05:05
雜牌軍
人人皆可為軍人
善哉善哉
好自為之後世人
今生前世皆罪人
2018-11-13
05:06
zenith
This is one of the best pieces of music we will ever hear on this planet! Stunning from vangelis
zenith
@Ambienfinity yip I agree Nigel
Ambienfinity
The whole album is a masterpiece, isn't it?
Juan Jose Viadero Rivas
True
carolina🎶
the best music of the world👍👍👍
yonouts dincutsa
Closing eyes and thinking hlw beatifull is life an love. It can make you cry
Stathis Tsogkas
RIP Vangelis .
The God of music !!!
Hope this masterpiece will guide you to the universe .
Tony San Madrid
Mon Dieu, chaque fois que je l'entends, cela me fait pleurer, c'est tellement émouvant et magnifique. Je t'aime Vangelis.
Petroukios Tz.
What a TIMELESS piece of music!! It seems so effortless for Vangelis to capture the very essence of humanity and describe it with his music !! Listening to this, you just remember how fragile life is!! And that all you can do in this journey is to live with dignity, acknowledging what you do not know, and respecting other human beings!! When I listen to this song, I just want to say "sorry" and "thank you" to the people in my life!!
Petroukios Tz.
@yonouts dincutsa Thank you!!