DUSHANBE, January 27, 2015, Asia-Plus –World-renowned Greek singer Demis Roussos died in an Athens hospital at the weekend at the age of 68, the hospital said on Monday, according to AFP.
The Egyptian-born singer, who became popular in the 1960s and 1970s and sold about 60 million records globally, had been in the private hospital with an undisclosed illness for some time.
It is to be noted that Demis Roussos was extremely popular in the Soviet Union in the 1970s. His hits such as Good-bye, My Love, Good-bye; My Reason; and We Shall Dance became very popular and were sung across the U.S.S.R.
The most-popular Roussos song in the Soviet Union was Souvenirs, which was translated into Russian and played by local bands in both English and Russian.
