Jun Senoue

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Name = Jun Senoue
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Born = August 2, 1970 (age 38) Matsushima, Miyagi, Miyagi Prefecture, Tōhoku, Japan
Genre = Hard rock, Heavy metal, Video game music
Occupation = Musician, Composer, Arranger
Years_active = 1993-present
Instruments = Guitar
Label = Wave Master Entertainment
Associated_acts = Crush 40, Johnny Gioeli
URL = http://www.junsenoue.com
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Jun Senoue (瀬上純 "Senoue Jun") (born August 2, 1970 in Matsushima, Miyagi, Miyagi Prefecture, Tōhoku, Japan) is a video game composer and musician from Wave Master, well known for some of his contributions in many Sonic the Hedgehog games. He is also the guitarist for the band Crush 40, which also contributes to many Sonic the Hedgehog games.

Biography

Jun started playing the piano at 3 while living in Japan. After moving to Panama, Jun became dedicated to rock music at the age of 12.cite web | url=http://www.junsenoue.com/content/view/2/10/| title=Jun Senoue's Biography| accessdate=2008-04-11 |author= Parminder Gill|date=2005-04-10] He picked up the electric guitar at 15 and taught himself how to play,cite web | url=http://junsenoue.com/content/view/13/19/| title=Style Factory interview with Jun Senoue| accessdate=2008-01-27] making his first actual original band recording at the age of 17.

In 1993, after graduating from college with a degree in economics from Aoyama Gakuin University in Japan, he joined Sega as a video game composer, doing sound works for games such as Sonic the Hedgehog 3. He is most well-known for his compositions and songs in Sonic Adventure.

Senoue continued to compose in-game music and theme songs for the 3D Sonic games such as "Sonic Adventure", "Sonic Adventure 2", "Sonic Heroes" and "Shadow the Hedgehog" featuring music contributed by his band Crush 40. Most recently Senoue helped compose some of the music and program all of the sound effects for Sonic Team USA's latest game, "". [End credits from ]

In 2007, Jun provided three new arrangements for the Japanese console release of OutRun 2 SP, including covers of series staples "Splash Wave" and "Rush a Difficulty", and new original track entitled "Lift You Up!". The songs are also available on the "Outrun 20th Anniversary" box CD set.

Jun is also one of 38 composers for the Wii game, "Super Smash Bros. Brawl", having contributed an arrangement of the Angel Island Zone theme from Sonic The Hedgehog 3, as well as the original versions of many Crush 40 songs such as "Live and Learn".cite web | url=http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/music/music19.html| title=Smash Bros. Dojo Music Update 19| accessdate=2008-01-22|author=Masahiro Sakurai|date=2007-12-25]

Recently, Jun was assigned to compose music for Sonic and the Black Knight.

Employment and Projects

Crush 40

Originally started as a project band to create music for NASCAR Arcade,cite web | url=http://www.junsenoue.com/content/view/1/14| title=Crush 40 History| accessdate=2008-01-07 |author= Parminder Gill|date=2005-04-10 ] Crush 40 is the name of the project of both Jun Senoue and vocalist Johnny Gioeli from Hardline. Their works have spread from their original music made for racing to songs for the Sonic the Hedgehog series. Currently, the band has released one album and several other songs on video game soundtracks.

JxJ

In 2005, Jun released an EP with Japanese voice actress Junko Noda entitled "Ready!". [cite web|url=http://www.wave-master.com/wme/jxj/index.html|title=Wave Master Entertainment entry for JxJ: Ready!|date=2005-03-24|accessdate=2008-04-11] The project goes under the name JxJ (Jun x Junko) and is only available in Japan, though copies have made their way stateside through the Jun Senoue fan page.

References

External links

* [http://www.junsenoue.com/ Jun Senoue's official fansite]
* [http://www.ocremix.org/composer/id/41/jun-senoue/ Composer profile] at OverClocked ReMix
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* [http://www.wave-master.com Wave Master website]