Reuters/Athens
The Egyptian-born Greek singer Demis Roussos, 68, who sold more than 60mn records worldwide with a series of international hits in the 1970s and 1980s, has died in Athens after a long illness, media reports said yesterday.
Roussos, who died on Sunday, was part of the progressive rock group Aphrodite’s Child but was best known for his solo hits, among them Forever and Ever, Goodbye, Quand je t’aime and Happy to Be on an Island in the Sun.
Forever and Ever was used in British director Mike Leigh’s 1977 television play Abigail’s Party and Roussos was also the subject of a British documentary The Roussos Phenomenon in the mid-1970s.
Roussos was born on June 15, 1946, and was raised in Alexandria, Egypt, by his Greek engineer father and his Egyptian mother of Italian heritage.



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