"On concerts: "Concerts are nonsense. They create many problems: money, interests – it is hardly spontaneous. I want to feel the same pleasure that my audience experiences, otherwise it’s not honest""
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Vangelis
Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou (29 March 1943 – 17 May 2022), professionally known as Vangelis, was a Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, pop rock, and orchestral music. He was best known for his Academy Award–winning score for the film Chariots of Fire.
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