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Yoko Kanno

Yoko Kanno (菅野 よう子, Kanno Yōko, born March 18, 1963) is a Japanese composer, arranger and musician best known for her work on the soundtracks of anime films, television series, live-action films, video games, and advertisements. She was born in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. She has written scores for Cowboy Bebop and its live-action adaptation, Darker than Black, Macross Plus, Turn A Gundam, The Vision of Escaflowne, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Wolf's Rain, Kids on the Slope, Genesis of Aquarion and Terror in Resonance, and has worked with the directors Hirokazu Kore-eda, Yoshiyuki Tomino, Shinichirō Watanabe and Shōji Kawamori. Kanno has also composed music for pop artists Maaya Sakamoto and Kyōko Koizumi. She is also a keyboardist, and is the frontwoman for the Seatbelts, who perform many of Kanno's compositions and soundtracks.


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Born:
Mar 18, 1963 In Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
Movie/TV Credits:
7
First Appeared:
In the movie Seatbelts: Souvenir of Tokyo 2001-01-01
Latest Project:
Movie Maaya Sakamoto 15th Anniversary Live "Gift" at Nippon Budokan 2010-08-11
Known For
Poster of Dimension Bomb
Poster of Memories of Memories
Poster of Future Blues
Poster of Seatbelts: Souvenir of Tokyo
Filmography
Movie Maaya Sakamoto 15th Anniversary Live "Gift" at Nippon Budokan 2010-08-11
Movie Ink Music: In the Land of the Hundred-Tongued Lyricist Self 2009-06-18
Movie Macross Frontier Galaxy Tour Final in Budokan 2009-11-27
Movie Dimension Bomb Kuu (voice) 2008-09-15
Movie Memories of Memories Self (archive) 2004-02-24
Movie Seatbelts: Souvenir of Tokyo 2001-01-01
Movie Future Blues Self 2001-11-07