Vangelis Biography Personal Life

Alexander Berezkin founder Odyssey in search of inspiration Odyssey often addresses music. A special place in the list of performers is occupied by the ingenious composer Vangelis. He definitely influenced our minds and imprinted in the ideology of the project. Evangelos Odyssias Papatanasiu was born on March 29 in the small coastal town of Agria, but he lived his childhood and youth in noisy Athens.

His father Odysseus was engaged in real estate business, was fond of sports, was an amateur and music runner. His mother, Fotai, was engaged in vocal art, although she did not sing professionally. Vangelis, Greek composer, pioneer of electronic music, Vanjelis Children's photograph for piano, hair, Greece, Musical talents of young Vangelis became obvious already at four years old, and for the first time his music sounded from the stage when he was only six years old.

Parents decide to send Evangelos to a music school, but it turned out that formal education was not for him. In childhood, Vangelis did not want to follow any rules and instructions. Initially, he experimented with traditional Greek music, and at the age of 12 he showed interest in jazz and rock. At the age of 15, together with classmates, he began to gather music groups.

The first breakthrough took place in the year when Vangelis became part of the Greek Beitnus of The Forminx team. The success of the group was so significant that at the end of the year a documentary about the life of Forminx began to be shot in Thessaloniki. The group was dissolved at the peak of popularity in the spring of the year. Over this short period of time, eleven high -speed discs were released.

In total, the group left 22 songs, the music for most of which was written by Vangelis. The upper row from left to right: Vangelis, Lucas Sideras. The first single Rain and Tears brought the team world popularity, and in the future all produced singles have occupied first places in European charts for three years. After the release of the third album, the group broke up in the year.

It is noteworthy, Vangelis was very different from the musicians of that time: drugs and alcohol passed him, and inspiration was condescended straight from space. Wangelis's solo career began in the first half of the X. In the year, he moves from Paris to London, where his candidacy was considered in the YES group. However, after two weeks of rehearsals, Vangelis left them, saying that his musical concept was too far from the concept of the group.

In these two weeks, he became friends with the soloist of “Yes” John Anderson, which ensured their subsequent joint work. The film is staged according to real events and talks about the rivalry of two bugns athletes, representing the UK at the Olympic Games of the year in Paris. For this work, the composer was awarded the Academy of Sciences and Grammy. Vangelis - Chariots of Fire, immediately a year later, Wangelis writes music for the film Blade Runner Ridley Scott and is forever in history as the greatest electronic composer of all time.

It is noteworthy, his name was to write music for the continuation of Blade Runner: but Vangelis refused, saying that he could not create music better than the first part. On the right: Douglas Tramball, the creator of special effects for the film “Running Blade”, as well as “Cosmic Odyssey”, the process of creating visual special effects for Vangelis Running Blade, Photo: Bernard Charlon after Wangelis's work, in dozens of art and documentary films.

In all the compositions of Vangelis, incredible accuracy, knowledge of the history of music, instruments and attitude to each album, as a narrative, with a clear division into an exposition, tie, climax and denouement, are traced. Thanks to such a systematicity, Evangelos recorded several albums of academic, symphonic and choreal music and was the author of music for several ballets and plays.

Of course, he was an incredible scale of a person, each of his performances was cosmic, with the involvement of a huge number of musicians and scenography specialists. But, it is worth noting that he was little interested in glory and significance. Vangelis believed that this all interferes with pure creativity. Starting since the x, Wangelis has less often performed and led a fairly closed lifestyle.

Continuing to develop his creative gift, he began to focus on painting more and made his debut in the year with the exhibition in Valencia. The picturesque works of Vangelis Fig. Unfortunately, on May 17, Vangelis passed away. The world lost the wizard. But his compositions will continue to inspire us, and Vangelis’s music will play again, but already in endless space, when humanity will go to explore the Universe.

Vangelis - Blade Runner opening the credits specifically for this material, we prepared a short excursion to the world of Vangelis in the form of a prefabricated mixedip from different decades, starting from the first successes in The Forminx. Pleasant listening.