vangelis



who is vangelis
vangelis is a famous greek composer and keyboardist. he composes and performs mainly instrumental music and filmscores. his music is often categorized under terms like synthesizer, sympho and new age.


he was born as evangelos odyssey papathanassiou at march 29th 1943 in greece. he started playing the piano at the age of 4 and gave his first public performance of his own compositions at the age of 6. he moved to paris in the late sixties while forming the progressive rock-band aphrodites child, which became very popular. very soon they moved on to london.
in 1970 the group broke up and vangelis started a solo career.

what instrument does he play
it seems to be mainly keyboards in all forms pianos, synthesizers, organs, etc., but he is also skilled at the drums and has played flutes, vibes, tablas, tubular bells, timpanies, cymbals and gongs in the past.
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