While performing in the big hotels in Athens such as the Hilton, Demis met many fellow musicians, including Vangelis Papathanassiou, the leader of the group Forminx, with whom Demis got along very well. Night after night Demis sang his song, and later he also sang “When A Man Loves A Woman” and “Black Is Black” at the group’s shows. The group’s lead singer decided to introduce a break into his performance, and thus allowed Demis to sing lead on the Animal’s hit “House Of The Rising Sun“. It was not until Demis performed with the group “We Five” that he was able to show his abilities as a singer to the public. Demis played in many of those bands, both as a trumpet player (the American trumpet player Harry James had made a great impression on him) and a bass player. In Athens in the mid-sixties, tourism was starting to flourish, which in turn supported the numerous bands around that city who played mostly cover versions of big hits from the west, expecially from England and the United States. During the Suez crisis, the quite well-to-do Roussos family, with their second son Kostas, left Egypt, leaving behind their possessions, and returned to the country of their ancestors, Greece. Artemios (‘Demis’) Ventouris Roussos was born in Alexandria, Egypt on Jas Olga and George’s first son.
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