Artemios Venturis Roussos

During his career, singer Demis Roussos has sold 100 million albums, becoming the most successful performer in Greece. Despite the fact that today the artist who participated in the recording of soundtracks for the films "Chariots of Fire" and "Blade Runner" is no longer alive, according to music lovers, the singer's unique creativity will exist as long as in the hearts and memory of the faithful fans hear his amazing voice.

Artemios Venturis Roussos was born on June 15, 1946 in the city of Alexandria (Egypt), located in the Nile River Delta. He became the first son (there is a younger brother Kotas) of his parents Nelly and Yorgos. During the Suez Crisis, the Russos family changed their place of residence, moving to the homeland of their ancestors in Greece. Demis' craving for art was inherited by him. The mother of the future singer, Nelly Mazlum, was a professional dancer, and father Yorgos, although he earned his living as an engineer, played the guitar excellently.

It is not surprising that for such an exceptionally talented couple, children preferred creative self-realization to memorizing mathematical formulas and the study of chemical compounds from childhood. Demis grew up as an intelligent and talented boy. He sang well, so his parents sent him to the choir of the Greek Byzantine church. Five years spent there were not in vain: Roussos studied musical theory, learned to play the double bass, trumpet and even the organ.

In 1963, Roussos met talented musicians who, like him, wanted to make a successful career. Soon there was a group "Aphrodite's Child", in which Demis became the vocalist. The compositions "The other people" and "Plastics nevermore" brought the band its first fame. In 1968, there was a military coup in Greece, and Roussos with his rock band left for Paris.

There he developed an active creative activity, and soon the whole of France started talking about "Aphrodite's Child". The song "Rain and tears" in a couple of days rose to the first lines of the charts in Europe. It was followed by the release of the albums "End of the world" and "It's five o'clock". Despite his growing popularity, Demis decided to leave the group and pursue a solo career. The last album "Aphrodite's Child" - "666" - was finalized and released after the breakup of the group.

In 1971 he released the first solo disc of Roussos - "Fire and Ice". Two years later, a new work by the performer appeared on store shelves - "Forever and Еver". The record featured at least six hit songs (Goodbye May Love, Velvet Mornings, Lovely Lady of Arcadia, My Friend the Wind, and My Reason). A video clip was filmed for the track "Forever and ever".

In 1973 the performer of the song "Adagio" has already given concerts all over the world. In 1974, at a concert in Holland, the vocalist performed the single "Someday somewhere". This composition became the harbinger of the third disc "My only fascination". In 1975 three works by Demis - "Forever and ever", "My only fascination" and "Souvenir" - topped the top ten albums in England.

Released in four languages, the album "Universum" (1979) was popular in Italy and France. The record owes its success to the singles "Loin des yeux" and "Loin du coeur", released a month before the release.

In 1982, Attitudes hit the shelves, but the album was not a commercial success. To rehabilitate himself in the eyes of the audience, Demis recorded a new work with cover versions of tracks from the fifties and sixties called "Reflections". Then the singer went to Holland, where he recorded the singles "Island of love" and "Summerwine", and also released the album "Greater love".

In 1987, the vocalist returned to his native land to work on an album with digital recordings of versions of his greatest hits. A year later, the album "Time" was released. The song of the same name was also released as a single.

1993 was marked by the release of the album Insight, which included a modern version of the composition "Morning has broken". Three albums were released between 2000 and 2009: "Auf meinen wegen", "Live in Brazil" and "Demis".

Despite the fact that in the amorous piggy bank of a charismatic musician, in addition to wives, there were hundreds of persons bewitched by his voice, Roussos did not like to touch on the topic of his personal life. The first wife of a Greek singer was a girl named Monique. Young people legalized relations at the very beginning of Demis's career. The young lady, who gave the vocalist daughter Emily, refused to share her husband with fans.

Realizing that her husband prefers fame and fame to a quiet family life, the woman filed for divorce a couple of months after giving birth and left for France with her baby in her arms to stay with relatives. Less than a year after the collapse of the family, the artist married a second time. The singer's chosen one was called Dominica. The girl gave birth to the wife of an heir, who was named Cyril.

Blinded by love, the young lady did not believe the materials about her husband's intrigues that were regularly published in newspapers and firmly believed that the faithful remained faithful to her during the tour. This continued until Roussos himself confessed to his wife that he had committed adultery at one of the concerts. Dominique could not forgive the betrayal.

True, unlike the first wife, the woman did not take the child, considering it expedient to leave her son in the care of Demis's mother in Greece. The next wife of Roussos was the American model Pamela. The performer of the song "Goodbye, my love, goodbye" met the model in a bookstore. Even before legalizing the relationship, the lovers found themselves on the verge of life and death.

In June 1985, the couple became hostages on the Athens-Rome flight. Then militants from the Hezbollah group kept passengers of the plane at gunpoint for a week and even shot one person in front of the adults and children present on the charter.

At that time, they knew about Demis in Arab countries, therefore, when the terrorists recognized him as a popular performer, Roussos had to perform songs for the invaders. Recovering from the shock a couple of months after release, the couple legalized their relationship. True, this union also fell apart.

Roussos' longest marriage was with his last wife, Marie-Teresa, a French yoga instructor. They met in 1994. Then Marie, leaving everything behind, went to Greece for her beloved. It is worth noting that until the end of his days, the eminent artist never made a marriage proposal to his beloved, preferring cohabitation to a legal relationship.

The talented musician passed away on January 25, 2015. The singer's relatives did not want the news of the sudden death of Demis to negatively affect the parliamentary elections, which were scheduled for that day, so the press learned about the death of the artist only on January 26. Fans were alarmed by the secrecy of relatives, who did not disclose the cause of death of the eminent composer and for a long time could not decide on the date and place of the burial ceremony.

As is often the case, people who were kept in the dark began to put forward their versions of what happened. According to the first theory, the artist died from an exacerbation of a chronic disease against the background of his obesity, according to the second, Roussos died of a fatal illness, which he deliberately did not report to the media.

A little later, Demis's own daughter, Emilia, clarified the situation. The girl gave an interview for one of the French magazines, in which she stated that her father had been struggling with pancreatic cancer for a couple of years. It was this terrible diagnosis that interrupted the eventful life of the tenor. The funeral ceremony took place on January 30 of the same year. The tomb of Demis is located in the First Cemetery of Athens, where, according to tradition, only noble and famous Greeks are buried.

1971 - "Fire and ice" 1974 - "Forever and ever" 1974 - "My only fascination" 1982 - "Attitudes" 1984 - "Reflection" 1979 - "Universum" 1980 - "Man of the world" 1989 - "My friend the wind 1993 - Insight 1995 - Gold 1996 - Too many dreams 2000 - Auf meinen wegen 2006 - Live in Brazil 2009 - Demis

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