Artemios (Demis) Ventouris Roussos

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

He was born in Egypt to expatriate Greeks (his parents George and Olga having also been born in Egypt) and raised in Alexandria. His parents lost everything and returned to Greece after the Suez Crisis.

After returning to Greece, Demis was in a series of musical groups beginning with The Idols when he was 17. After this he joined We Five (not the San Francisco, California folk-rock group), another covers band which had limited success in Greece.

He came to a wider audience in 1968 when he joined progressive rock band