Demis Roussos

Artemios "Demis" Ventouris-Roussos (15 June 1946 – 25 January 2015) was a Greek singer, songwriter and musician. As a band member he is best remembered for his work in the progressive rock music act Aphrodite's Child, but as a vocal soloist, his repertoire included hit songs like "Goodbye, My Love, Goodbye", "From Souvenirs to Souvenirs" and "Forever and Ever". Roussos sold over 60 million albums worldwide and became "an unlikely kaftan-wearing sex symbol". Roussos was born and raised in Alexandria, Egypt, in a Greek family. His father, George (Yorgos) Roussos, was a classical guitarist and an engineer, and his mother, Olga (1923–2019), participated with her husband in an amateur theatrical Greek group in Alexandria (there were three such groups in the Greek community); her family originally came from Greece. His maternal grandparents were from Chios and immigrated to Alexandria after the Asia Minor Catastrophe. His paternal grandparents were from Chania. His grandfather moved to Egypt in the early 1900s along with his future wife who was underaged. He changed his surname from Ventouris to Roussos to hide from her family. As a child, Roussos studied music and joined the Greek Church Byzantine choir in Alexandria. His formative years in the ancient port city's cosmopolitan atmosphere were influenced by jazz, but also traditional Arabic and Greek Orthodox music. His parents lost their possessions during the Suez Crisis in 1956 and consequently decided to move to Greece. After settling in Greece, Roussos participated in a series of musical groups beginning with the Idols when he was 17, where he met Evángelos Papathanassíou (later known as Vangelis) and Loukas Sideras, his future bandmates in Aphrodite's Child. After this, he joined the Athens-based band We Five, another cover band which had limited success in Greece. Roussos's operatic vocal style helped propel the band to international success, notably on their final album 666, based on passages from the Book of Revelation, which became a progressive rock cult classic. After Aphrodite's Child disbanded, Roussos continued to record sporadically with his former bandmate Vangelis. In 1970, the two released the film score album Sex Power (the album has also been credited to Aphrodite's Child), and later recorded the 1977 album Magic together. Their most successful collaboration was "Race to the End" (also sung in Spanish as "Tu Libertad"), a vocal adaptation of the musical theme from the Oscar-winning film Chariots of Fire (scored by Vangelis). Roussos also guested on Vangelis' soundtrack to Blade Runner (1982), on the tracks "Tales of the Future", "Damask Rose", "Taffey's Snake Pit Bar", and "On the Trail of Nexus 6" (several only available in non-bootleg form on the 29th Anniversary Limited Edition CD set released in 2011). ... Source: Article "Demis Roussos" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Known For: Acting

Born: Alexandria, Egypt, 1946-06-15

Died: 2015-01-25

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1966	To Be or Not To Be	Singer	62
2	2000	Demis Roussos: The Phenomenon	Self	60
3	2001	Boom! Boom! The Best of the Original Basil Brush Show	Self (archive footage)	0
4	2004	Demis Roussos: Live In Concert	Self	0
5	2006	Demis Roussos: Live In Brazil	Self	0
6	2006	Demis Roussos: Greatest Hits	Self	77
7	2007	Demis Roussos: Rain And Tears	Self	81
8	2009	O Melhor do Flash Back - 92 Clipes Para Recordar	Self (archive footage)	0
9	2009	Demis Roussos: Greatest Hits Live At Bratislava	Self	0
10	2013	A Greek Type of Problem	Le pope	58
11	2020	Numéro un - Demis Roussos	Self	0
12	2022	La tournée triomphale des idoles	Self	80

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1959	Discorama	Self	0
2	1961	Musik aus Studio B	Self	0
3	1964	Die Drehscheibe	Self	60
4	1966	4-3-2-1 Hot and Sweet	Self	0
5	1968	Starparade	Self	0
6	1968	À bout portant	Self	80
7	1969	Die ZDF-Hitparade	Self	0
8	1971	Samedi soir	Self	60
9	1971	Disco	Self	0
10	1971	Cadet Rousselle	Self	0
11	1972	Ein Kessel Buntes	Self - Musician	18
12	1972	Midi trente	Self	60
13	1975	Midi Première	Self	100
14	1975	Les Rendez-vous du dimanche	Self	60
15	1975	Système 2	Self	0
16	1975	Numéro un	Self	60
17	1975	Numéro un	Self - Host	60
18	1977	Fan School	Self	73
19	1977	Please Turn the Page	Self	60
20	1981	Bananas	Self	35
21	1982	Champs-Elysées	Self	63
22	1982	Wogan	Self	45
23	1987	40° à l'ombre	Self	60
24	1987	Nulle part ailleurs	Self	56
25	1987	Sacrée soirée	Self	65
26	1987	The Dame Edna Experience	Self	50
27	1987	Le monde est à vous	Self	0
28	1987	Na siehste!	Self	0
29	2004	Willkommen bei Carmen Nebel	Self	40
30	2022	Il était une fois Champs-Élysées	Self (archive footage)	66

Demis Roussos

Film

Television