Demis Roussos

Spring of 2002 saw him do a successful tour of England. However, some of the people on Skid Row use tents rather than boxes. Demis continues to record and tour in to the Millennium. First-time visitors to this area are often shocked by the sight of the cardboard box shantytowns lining the sidewalks; the juxtaposition with the gleaming glass-sheathed skyscrapers on nearby Bunker Hill is quite striking. A common joke about the high prices of houses and taxes in Los Angeles city and county limits is that, "you can't even buy a cardboard box for that price", with "that price" being a mentioned expensive house price. He teamed up with BR Music in Holland to produce Immortel, Serenade and In Holland, utilising a variety of ethnic and electronic styles. Informal population estimates range from 10,000 to 30,000. The 1990's saw even more substantial releases by Demis. Los Angeles's Skid Row, in the Wholesale District (an industrial district), is located southeast of the downtown area and is home to one of the largest stable populations of transient persons in the United States.

Time, which garnered a fair amount of acclaim and a minor hit song (popular in the discoteques) with Dance of Love. Seattle's Skid Row has been gentrified, and in 1970 was designated as the Pioneer Square Historic District. Sensing a new lease on life Demis embarked on a "comeback" with the l.p. The term was memorialized in the song Skid Row from the musical Little Shop of Horrors.. He was one of the passengers of the TWA Flight 847, that was hijacked on June 14, 1985. There is a formally identified Skid Row in Seattle and Los Angeles as well as informally identified districts in almost every major American city, such as The Bowery in New York City. Other hits were My Friend the Wind, My Reason and Lovely Lady of Arcadia. After the onset of the Great Depression, the area went into decline, and skid row became synonomous with being a bad neighborhood.

His single, Forever and Ever topped the charts in several countries in 1976. The first skid row was Skid Road (Yesler Way) in Seattle, where logs were skidded into the water for delivery to Henry Yesler's lumber mills. His solo career peaked in the 1970s with several hit albums. The American term skid row is used to refer to the rundown area of a city where alcoholics and vagrants congregate. Most successfully with Race to the End, a vocal adaptation of the musical theme from the Oscar winning film Chariots of Fire. He would continue to record with Vangelis over the years.

He also made several appearances on solo albums by Aphrodite's Child bandmate Vangelis. After returning to Greece Demis was in a series of musical groups (The Idols, We Five, Aphrodite's Child) before beginning his solo career. His parents lost everything and returned to Greece after the Suez Crisis. He was born in Egypt, to expatriate Greeks.

Artemios (Demis) Ventouris Roussos (born June 15, 1946) is a Greek singer.