COMPOSER

Vangelis

1943 - 2022

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Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou (Greek: Ευάγγελος Οδυσσέας Παπαθανασίου, pronounced [eˈvaɲɟelos oðiˈseas papaθanaˈsi.u]; 29 March 1943 – 17 May 2022), known professionally as Vangelis ( vang-GHEL-iss; Greek: Βαγγέλης, pronounced [vaɲˈɟelis]), was a Greek musician, composer, and producer of electronic, progressive, ambient, and classical orchestral music. He composed the Academy Award-winning score to Chariots of Fire (1981), as well as for the films Blade Runner (1982), Missing (1982), Antarctica (1983), The Bounty (1984), 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992), and Alexander (2004), and the 1980 PBS documentary series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage by Carl Sagan. Born in Agria and raised in Athens, Vangelis began his career in the 1960s as a member of the rock bands the Forminx and Aphrodite's Child; the latter's album 666 (1972) is recognised as a progressive-psychedelic rock classic. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vangelis has received more than 4,650,631 page views. His biography is available in 69 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). Vangelis is the 59th most popular composer (up from 69th in 2019), the 54th most popular biography from Greece (up from 65th in 2019) and the most popular Greek Composer.

Vangelis is most famous for his work on the soundtrack to the film "Chariots of Fire" which won an Academy Award for Best Original Score.

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  • 4.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 73.09

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 69

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Vangelis ranks 59 out of 1,451. Before him are Antonio Salieri, Orlande de Lassus, Carl Orff, Erik Satie, Georg Philipp Telemann, and Arnold Schoenberg. After him are Henry Purcell, Astor Piazzolla, Johann Christian Bach, Dieterich Buxtehude, Jules Massenet, and Leonard Bernstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Vangelis ranks 13. Before him are Julio Iglesias, Catherine Deneuve, Jim Morrison, George Harrison, Bobby Fischer, and Queen Silvia of Sweden. After him are Sharon Tate, Roger Waters, Griselda Blanco, Albano Carrisi, Joe Pesci, and Keith Richards. Among people deceased in 2022, Vangelis ranks 7. Before him are Elizabeth II, Pelé, Mikhail Gorbachev, Pope Benedict XVI, Jiang Zemin, and Jean-Luc Godard. After him are Shinzō Abe, Luc Montagnier, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and Leonid Kravchuk.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Vangelis ranks 54 out of 1,024. Before him are Constantine II of Greece (1940), Peisistratos (-600), Menander (-342), Pope Sixtus II (215), Pindar (-517), and Queen Sofía of Spain (1938). After him are Antisthenes (-445), Miltiades (-540), Seleucus I Nicator (-358), Pyrrho (-365), Xanthippe (-500), and Polykleitos (-450).

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Among COMPOSERS In Greece

Among composers born in Greece, Vangelis ranks 1. After him are Mikis Theodorakis (1925), Manos Hatzidakis (1925), Eleni Karaindrou (1941), Spyridon Samaras (1861), Nikos Skalkottas (1904), Nikolaos Mantzaros (1795), Thanos Mikroutsikos (1947), and Andreas Makris (1930).

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