- Yoko Kanno
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Name = Yoko Kanno
Sex = female
Background = non_performing_personnel
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Born = birth date and age|1964|3|19 flagicon|JPN Miyagi,Japan
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Instrument = Keyboard,piano ,accordion
Genre =Jazz ClassicalOrchestral ElectronicNew Age Blues Folk rock Electro RockJ-Pop Art rock
Occupation =Composer ,musician , conductor
Years_active = 1986–"present"
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Associated_acts = TETSU100%,The Seatbelts , Samply Red,ORIGA
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Notable_instruments =nihongo|Yoko Kanno|菅野 よう子|Kanno Yōko|born
March 19 ,1964 inMiyagi Prefecture ,Japan is acomposer ,arranger andmusician best known for her work on thesoundtrack s for many games, seminalanime films, TV series, live-action movies, and advertisements. She has written scores for famous animated works, including "Macross Plus ", "Turn A Gundam ", "Cowboy Bebop ", "Vision of Escaflowne ", "", "Wolf's Rain ", and is the most trusted composer by veteran and new-wave directors such asYoshiyuki Tomino ,Shinichiro Watanabe andShoji Kawamori . [ [http://www.productionig.com/contents/works_sp/47_/s08_/index.html Production IG Interview with Yoko Kanno for Ghost in the Shell: SAC] ] Kanno has also composed music forJPop artists, the most notable beingMaaya Sakamoto andKyoko Koizumi . She is also a skilled keyboardist, and is thefrontwoman forThe Seatbelts , who perform many of Kanno's compositions on the various original soundtracks for which she is responsible.Biography
Some of Yoko Kanno's most famous soundtrack themes include "
Kiseki no Umi " ("Lodoss War "), "Voices" ("Macross Plus "), "Tank! " ("Cowboy Bebop "), "Yakusoku wa Iranai " ("Escaflowne "), "Gravity" ("Wolf's Rain "), "Inner Universe " (') and ' . She was the lead member of the project band called "The Seatbelts ", which regrouped in the year of 2004 to compose the soundtrack of thePlayStation 2 "Cowboy Bebop" video game, released in Japan in 2005.She has composed for many
Koei games released during the late 1980s to early 1990s and forNapple Tale , aDreamcast game. Due to her close involvement in the "Cowboy Bebop" anime, the game released byBandai also features her work.Apart from anime and games, Kanno also composes for
live-action films and television commercials. Some popular brands she has composed for are Canon,DoCoMo ,Fuji Xerox ,Seven-Eleven ,Microsoft ,Nissan ,Toyota ,Shiseido , Avon, andMaster Card to name a few.Grand Funk Inc. is her recording studio of choice in producing for these two media. Contributions to films started in the 90s but only since 2002 has there been a trend towards the medium. Most of the latter were shown in international film festivals.She was married to fellow composer
Hajime Mizoguchi , with whom she collaborated on the soundtracks for "Please Save My Earth " and "Escaflowne ". They divorced in 2007.In addition to Japanese, she speaks very little English and some French, but claims that her English is "poor" and she needs translation help to converse in French. [http://www.ex.org/4.5/16-interview_kanno1.html]
She has attended
Otakon andAnime Expo in 1999, as well asAnime Expo New York in 2002.Gabriela Robin , an enigmatic vocalist who has only ever worked with Kanno and her ex-husband Mizoguchi Hajime, is rumored to be a pseudonym of Kanno herself.Discography
olo Studio Albums
Movie works
Works for Pop Albums
(In Order of Starting Year of Affiliation)
References
External links
* [http://www.kannoyoko.net/ Yoko Kanno Japanese site]
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* [http://www.ex.org/4.5/16-interview_kanno1.html Voices: An EX.org Exclusive Interview with Yoko Kanno]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0437819/ Yōko Kanno] at theInternet Movie Database
* [http://nippop.com/artist/artist_id-133/artist_name-yoko_kanno/ Nippop Profile |Yoko Kanno]
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* [http://www.jmusic.fr.tc/ Jmusic.fr.tc] biography and discography fr icon
* [http://www.jameswong.com/ykproject/core.html Yoko Kanno Project]
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