Kees de Graaf informs me that Vangelis died yesterday (Thursday) at 79.
We have a special connection to him through the Lightworkers Theme that Kees prepared many years ago now, set to Vangelis’ song.
Rest in peace… no, go on to an equally-stunning career in the afterlife, Vangelis!
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HC38xupAaY)
(Lightworkers who appear, in order: Billy Meier, David Willcock, Clifford Stone, Alex Collier, Blossom Goodchild, and Suzy Ward)
Vangelis
Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou, known professionally as Vangelis, was a Greek musician and composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, and orchestral music. He was best known for his Academy Award-winning score to Chariots of Fire, as well as for composing scores to the films Blade Runner, Missing, Antarctica, The Bounty, 1492: Conquest of Paradise, and Alexander, and for the use of his music in the 1980 PBS documentary series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage by Carl Sagan.
Vangelis began his career working with several pop bands of the 1960s such as The Forminx and Aphrodite’s Child, with the latter’s album 666 going on to be recognized as a progressive-psychedelic rock classic. Throughout the 1970s, Vangelis composed scores for several animal documentaries, including L’Apocalypse des Animaux, La Fête sauvage and Opéra sauvage; the success of these scores brought him into the film scoring mainstream. In 1975 he set up his new 16-track studio, Nemo Studios in London, which he named his “laboratory”.
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