Nếu bạn đã từng một lần tình cờ nghe thấy một giọng hát nam qua một bản tình ca
với giai điệu tha thiết, khắc khoải, trữ tình, mênh mang như đại dương xanh và u uẩn, sâu thẳm như ánh mắt thiếu nữ xa xăm, chắc chắn bạn sẽ ngạc nhiên một cách thú vị mà tìm biết về ca sĩ. Đó là giọng ca vàng Demis Roussos.

Hôm nay Nhạc Xanh mời các bạn thưởng thức một giọng ca đặc biệt, một người con của 2 xứ sở được mệnh danh là cái nôi của văn minh nhân loại. Demis Roussos, có tên đầy đủ là: Artemios Ventouris Roussos, Ông là một trong những giọng ca vàng với những bản tình ca vô cùng dễ thương, âm hưởng độc đáo mà nghe chỉ một lần không thể nào quên.

Demis Roussos sinh ra tại Origin Alexandria, Ai Cập ngày 15/ 6/ 1946. Cha mẹ ông là người Hi Lạp, George và Olga. Sau cuộc khủng hoảng kênh đào Suez, cha mẹ ông trở về cố hương Hi Lạp.

Năm 1963, khi 17 tuổi Roussos tham gia nhóm nhạc The Idols và sau này 2 nhóm nhạc khác. Ông bắt đầu nổi tiếng khi tham gia ban nhạc Progressive Rock vừa là ca sĩ rock, pop, Rock pop-folk vừa sử dụng đàn guitar bass. Sự nghiệp của ông đạt đến đỉnh vào thập niên 1970 với nhiều album top hit cao ở nhiều nước như My Friend The Wind, Forever and Ever, Goodbye My Love Goodbye
Album solo đầu tay của Demis “On The Greek Side Of My Mind”, phát hành tháng 11/1971. Tháng 3/1972, ông hoàn tất single solo thứ hai “No Way Out”. Đĩa đơn thứ ba “My Reason”, đạt hit ở phạm vi toàn thế giới mùa hè năm 1972. Thành công nối tiếp thành công, LP solo thứ hai ra mắt công chúng tháng 4/1973 cùng tên với single kèm theo “Forever And Ever”, trở thành nhạc phẩm kinh điển, tiêu thụ tới hơn 12 triệu bản (tính đến nay). LP “Forever And Ever” có tới sáu ca khúc thành công xếp vào đỉnh cao gồm “Goodbye My Love Goodbye”, “Velvet Mornings”, “Lovely Lady Of Arcadia”, “My Friend The Wind” và “My Reason” mà phần lớn sẽ được giới thiệu ở đây.

Roussos rất thành công ở nhiều nước châu Âu, Anh, Pháp, Mỹ, Đức, Bồ Đào Nha
và các nước châu Mỹ Latin, gần đây là các chuyến lưu diễn thành công ở Nga, Dubai

Ông hiện là khách mời của một số nhà thờ và hát trong các cuộc lễ nghi thức trang trọng.

Ảnh hưởng của Demis Roussos rất rõ nét trong nhạc phim Ấn Độ. Một vài bản nhạc của ông được các đạo diễn phim ca nhạc Ấn sao chép trực tiếp nguyên bản như “Lovely Lady of Arcadia”

Xin mời các bạn thưởng thức 13 bản tình ca qua giọng vàng của Demis Roussos:

Thân ái chúc các bạn trọn niềm vui của ngày làm việc cuối tuần

1. Lovely Lady of Arcadia ( Moscow, 07-03-2009)

We met one magic summer day
A dream came true and blew a way
For as your love began to grow
The time had come for me to go
Now all that I am living for
Is to comeback to you once more
Lovely lady of Arcadia
Promise you will wait for me
In your arms I found my shangrila
And it’s where I lo long to be
Lost in love eternally
I feel alone among the crowds
And sunny skies are filled with clouds
I miss your kiss and your embrace
The empting smile that lights your face
And just as long as we’re a part
The same old song will haunt my heart
Lovely lady of Arcadia
Promise you will wait for me
In your arms I found my shangrila
And it’s where Ilo long to be
Lost in love eternally

Lovely lady of Arcadia
When these lonely days are thru
I will stay and pray Arcadia
Shall be paradise for two
Paradise for me and you
Shall be paradise for two
Paradise for me and you

2. Goodbye My Love Goodbye

Hear the wind sings a sad old song
it knows I’m leaving you today
please don’t cry oh my
heart will break
when I’ll go on my way

goodbye my love goodbye
goodbye and au revoir
as long as you remember me
I’ll never be too far
goodbye my love goodbye
I always will be true
so hold me in your dreams till I come back to you

See the stars in the skies above
they’ll shine wherever I may roam
I will pray every lonely night
that soon they’ll guide me home

Goodbye

3. Someday Somewhere

Someday, Somewhere
You said hello
And walked into my life
Painted all my words in blue
Made my life a dream come true
Someday, Somewhere
I held your hand
And suddenly I knew
That your love
Could show the way
To my rainbow’s end

You gave my heart
A song to sing
Chained my wild imaginings
Time for us where sunshine never ending
Each morning was a melody
Sinful words in harmony
And you are all my eyes could wish to see

You said hello
And walked into my life

Oh, so unexpectedly
Oh, so very tenderly

I held your hand
And suddenly I knew

That your love
Could show the way
To my rainbow’s end

You gave my heart
A song to sing
Chained my wild imaginings
Time for us where sunshine never ending
Each morning was a melody
Sinful words in harmony
And you are all my eyes could wish to see

Someday, Somewhere
Our song went by
And left us standing there
Silently I walked away
Leaving me with yesterday

Someday, Somewhere
We’ll meet again
And we’ll pretend in vain
Trying to convince ourselves
Our love was just a game
Game
Game

4. My Friend The Wind

My friend the wind will come from the hills
When dawn will rise, he’ll wake me again
My friend the wind will tell me a secret
He shares with me, he shares with me

My friend the wind will come from the north
With words of love, she whispered for me
My friend the wind will say she loves me
And me alone, and me alone

I’ll hear her voice and the words
That he brings from Helenimou
Sweet as a kiss are the songs of Aghapimou
Soft as the dew is the touch of Manoulamou
Oh oh oh

We’ll share a dream where I’m never away from Helenimou
Blue are the days like the eyes of Aghapimou
Far from the world will I live with Manoulamou
Oh oh oh

My friend the wind go back to the hills
And tell my love a day will soon come
Oh friendly wind you tell her a secret
You know so well, oh you know so well

My friend the wind will come from the north
With words of love, she whispered for me
My friend the wind will say she loves me
And me alone, and me alone

I’ll hear her voice and the words
That he brings from Helenimou
Sweet as a kiss are the songs of Aghapimou
Soft as the dew is the touch of Manoulamou
Oh oh oh

We’ll share a dream where I’m never away from Helenimou
Blue are the days like the eyes of Aghapimou
Far from the world will I live with Manoulamou
Oh oh oh

La la la …. Helenimou
La la la …. Aghapimou
La la la …. Manoulamou

La la la …. Helenimou
La la la …. Aghapimou
La la la …. Manoulamou

WHEN FOREVER HAS GONE

When you lie close to me ,my heart is a flame
just the brush of your lips and I call out your name
Then I rest in your arms and I know,that you are true
but you still understand that’s the mystery of you

We will be forever we’ll go on and on
we will be together when forever has gone
we will be forever we’ll go on and on
we will be together when forever has gone

When I’m weak you are strong when I fall you go on
you’ll still be with me when my other friends have gone
yet you cry like a child and that breaks mi in two
you are all things to me that’s the mystery of you

we will be forever we’ll go on and on
we will be together when forever has gone
we will be forever we’ll go on and on
we will be together when forever has gone

5. Una Paloma Blanca

When the sun shines on the mountain
And the night is on the run
It’s a new day
It’s a new way
And I fly up to the sun

I can feel the morning sunlight
I can smell the new-mown hay
I can hear God’s voice is calling
For my golden sky light way

Una paloma blanca
I’m just a bird in the sky
Una paloma blanca
Over the mountains I fly
No one can take my freedom away

Once I had my share of losing
for they locked me on a chain
Yes they tried to break my power
oh I still can feel the pain

Una paloma blanca
I’m just a bird in the sky
Una paloma blanca
Over the mountains I fly
No one can take my freedom away

Una paloma blanca
I’m just a bird in the sky
Una paloma blanca
Over the mountains I fly
No one can take my freedom away

6. Let It Be Me

I bless the day I found you
I want to stay around you
And so I beg you, let it be me

Don’t take this heaven from one
If you must cling to someone
Now and forever, let it be me

Each time we meet love
I find complete love
Without your sweet love what would life be

So never leave me lonely
Tell me you love me only
And that you’ll always let it be me

Each time we meet love
I find complete love
Without your sweet love what would life be

So never leave me lonely
Tell me you love me only
And that you’ll always—let–it-be–me

7. Forever And Ever

Ever and ever, forever and ever you’ll be the one
That shines in me like the morning sun.
Ever and ever, forever and ever you’ll be my spring,
My rainbow’s end and the song I sing.

Take me far beyond imagination.
You’re my dream
come true, my consolation.
Ever and ever, forever and ever you’ll be my dream,
My symphony, my own lover’s theme.
Ever and ever, forever and ever my destiny
Will follow you eternally.

Take me far beyond imagination.
You’re my dream come true, my consolation.

Ever and ever, forever and ever you’ll be the one
That shines in me like the morning sun.
Ever and ever, forever and ever my destiny
Will follow you eternally

8. From Souvenirs To Souvenirs

A lonely room and empty chair
Another day so hard to bear
The things around me that I see remind me of
The past and how it all used to be

From souvenirs to more souvenirs I live
With days gone by when our hearts had all to give
From souvenirs to more souvenirs I live
With dreams you left behind
I’ll keep on turning in my mind

There’ll never be another you
No one will share the worlds we knew
And now that loneliness has come to take your place
I close my eyes and see your face

From souvenirs to more souvenirs I live
With days gone by when our hearts had all to give
From souvenirs to more souvenirs I live
With dreams you left behind
I’ll keep on turning in my mind..

9. Rain And Tears

Rain and tears, are the same
but in the sun
you’ve got to play the game

When you cry
in winter time
you can pretend
it’s nothing but the rain

How many times I’ve seen
tears coming from your blue eyes

Rain and tears, are the same
but in the sun
you’ve got to play the game

Give me an answer of love
(o—-ooohhh)
I need an answer of love
(o—-ooohhh)
Rain and tears, in the sun
But in your heart
you feel the rainbow waves

Rain and tears
both I shun
for in my heart there ‘ll never be a sun

Rain and tears, are the same
but in the sun
you’ve got to play the game
Game ….

10. We Shall Dance (2007)

We shall dance, we shall dance
The day we get a chance
To pay off all the violins of the ball

We shall dance, we shall dance
The day we get a chance
To get a dime to buy back our souls

We shall dance, we shall sing My
dear love, O my spring
My love good days will come
You’ll see the corn will grow in spring
My spring time
My spring time

We shall dance, we shall dance
The day we get a chance
To pay off all the violins of the ball

We shall dance, we shall stay
With the children at play
Lord I swear when the time
comes, we’ll pray

We shall dance, we shall sing
My dear love, O my spring
My love you’ll have a house
With roof and walls
Fire with coal
My soul, my soul

We shall dance, we shall dance
The day we get a chance
To pay off all the violins of the ball

We shall dance, we shall stay
With the children at play
Lord I swear when the time
comes, we’ll pray

11. Summer Wine- Bono & The Corrs/Demis Roussos & Petula Clark

Strawberries cherries and an angel’s kiss in spring
My summer wine is really made from all these things

I walked in town on silver spurs that jingled to
A song that I had only sang to just a few
She saw my silver spurs and said lets pass some time
And I will give to you summer wine
Ohh-oh-oh summer wine
Strawberries cherries and an angel’s kiss in spring
My summer wine is really made from all these things
Take off your silver spurs and help me pass the time
And I will give to you summer wine
Ohhh-oh summer wine

My eyes grew heavy and my lips they could not speak
I tried to get up but I couldn’t find my feet
She reassured me with an unfamiliar line
And then she gave to me more summer wine
Ohh-oh-oh summer wine

Strawberries cherries and an angel’s kiss in spring
My summer wine is really made from all these things
Take off your silver spurs and help me pass the time
And I will give to you summer wine
Mmm-mm summer wine
When I woke up the sun was shining in my eyes
My silver spurs were gone my head felt twice its size
She took my silver spurs a dollar and a dime
And left me cravin’ for more summer wine
Ohh-oh-oh summer wine
Strawberries cherries and an angel’s kiss in spring
My summer wine is really made from all these things
Take off your silver spurs and help me pass the time
And I will give to you summer wine
Mmm-mm summer wine..

12. No More Boleros

What can I say
there’s an empty space where your love
filled my life and I know.
That a part of you will always be
a part of me.

One summernight
and the sky is full of wishes
that won’t arrive.
How can I be
in a world without your eyes
to look at me.

No more Boleroes
No more nights to dance the dance of love
Only lonely hearts
no more Boleroes
I hear the song
and your arms always make me feel so warm
now you’re gone I’ll be dancing on alone.

No more Boleroes
No more nights to dance the dance of love.
Only lonely hearts
no more Boleroes.
(2 x)
13. Loin Des Yeux, Loin Du Cœur (1978)

Tous ces trains de nuit, ces aeroports,
tous ces longs courriers m’ eloignent de toi
ta photographie est dans mon passeport
et j’ai dans le coeur un sourire de toi

Toutes ces lumieres, tous ces paysages
je les donnerais pour être avec toi
je passe la frontiére au long du voyage
je sais que tu es á côté de moi

Loin des yeux loin du coeur ça n’existe pas
loin des yeux loin du coeur moi je pense à toi
et chaque jour qui passe me rapproche de toi
au rendez-vous de ton amour je suis toujours lá

Moi je me réveille un matin a Londres
et je me proméne le soir dans Athènes
le jour tu es là un peu comme un ombre,
la nuit tu reviens comme un grand soleil

Loin des yeux loin du coeur ça n’existe pas
loin des yeux loin du coeur moi je oense à toi
et chaque jour qui passe me rapproche de toi
au rendez-vous de ton amour je suis toujours là

Loin des yeux loin du coeur pas pour toi et moi
Loin des yeux loin du coeur moi je n’oublie pas
et chaque jour qui passe me rapproche de toi
au rendez-vous de ton amour je suis toujours là

Loin des yeux loin du coeur ça n’existe pas
loin des yeux loin du coeur moi je oense à toi
et chaque jour qui passe me rapproche de toi
au rendez-vous de ton amour je suis toujours là