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Vangelis (Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou, Greek: Βαγγέλης Παπαθανασίου) is a world-renowned electronic composer and musician. He was born on 29 March 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 circa 1961 in his country of birth, a locally popular band called Formynx. He then moved to Paris and formed the more internationally-known band Aphrodite's Child with Demis Roussos and Lucas Sideras. They...

A joint venture between Jon Anderson, best known as the lead singer for Yes, and Vangelis. They formed in 1979 after Vangelis had been rumoured to replace Rick Wakeman in Yes a few years before. Anderson had contributed to Vangelis' albums "Heaven and Hell", "See You Later" and "Opera Sauvage". They released a total of four albums with Anderson writing the lyrics and Vangelis composing the music: "Short Stories" in 1980, "The Friends of Mr. Cairo" in 1981, "Private Collection" in 1983, and "Page of Life" in 1991, which got re-released in 1998 with some additional tracks of which Vangelis...

Disco Evangelists is a collaboration between David Holmes and Ashley Beedle. They released only two tracks - De Niro & A New Dawn - both in 1993 and both on Positiva Records. However, the b-side to A New Dawn - Cosmik Byelaw 10.... .

Carla Bozulich is best known as the singer from LA-based band The Geraldine Fibbers and as the woman who re-made Willie Nelson’s 'Red Headed Stranger' — with Willie Nelson as a special guest. Carla has one of the most unique voices in any genre. Her work is at once brutally raw and weirdly visionary. Born in New York City, she grew up a tomboy and girl protector in San Pedro, CA. Carla’s first appearance on record is Gary Kail’s album from 1982 called Zurich 1916, on which she does dada-inspired worldplay, “you know, telephone and vacuum cleaner stuff”. She sang...