Keyboardist and composer Vangelis – born Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou on
March 29, 1943, in Agria, Greece – was an electronic music pioneer best known
for his epic theme music to the Academy Award-winning movie Chariots of Fire in
1981. He began his musical journey at a very young age, playing the piano and
composing original music from the age of four. His first band, The Forminx, were
popular in their native Greece but failed to win over the rest of the world.
Aphrodite's Child followed and the band relocated to Paris, France in an attempt
to further their career. Their fi...