Vangelis (
Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou, Greek:
Βαγγέλης Παπαθανασίου) is a world-renowned
electronic composer and musician. He was born on March 29, 1943 in Volos, Greece. He is best known for compositions such as the Academy Award-winning
1981 theme to the movie
Chariots Of Fire, the entire score to the movie
Blade Runner and the themes used in the soundtrack of
Carl Sagan's
Cosmos. His first musical effort was in the late 60s in his country of birth, a locally popular band called
Formynx.