Yoko Kanno
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Yoko Kanno (菅野 よう子 Kanno Yōko, born March 19, 1964) is a famous composer and keyboardist known for her performances and musical scores in anime titles.
Some of her most famous music pieces are "Voices" (Macross Plus), "Tank!" (Cowboy Bebop), "Yakusoku wa Iranai" (Escaflowne), "Gravity" (Wolf's Rain), and "Inner Universe" (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex). She was the lead member of a band called The Seatbelts, which was formed for the sole purpose of making the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack.
She has composed for many Koei games released during the late 1980s to early 1990s and for a Dreamcast game. Due to her close involvenment in the Cowboy Bebop anime, the game released by Bandai also features her work.
Apart from anime and games, Kanno also composes for live-action films and CMs (television advertisements or commercials) for all sorts of brands. 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.
There is some speculation that one of her frequently hired vocalists, Gabriela Robin, is Kanno herself under a pseudonym. [1] (http://www.geocities.com/gabriella_robin/gr.html)
She is currently married to fellow composer Hajime Mizoguchi, with whom she collaborated on the soundtracks for Please Save My Earth and Escaflowne.
She has attended Otakon and Anime Expo in 1999, as well as Anime Expo New York in 2002.
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Anime works
- Brain Powerd
- Cardcaptor Sakura (TV opening theme)
- Cowboy Bebop
- Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door
- Dai-Guard (Ending theme; "Rocking Horse Stars")
- Earth Girl Arjuna
- Escaflowne: The Movie (in collaboration with Hajime Mizoguchi)
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
- Ghost in the Shell: Tachikoma Days
- Jin-Roh (Piano)
- Macross 7 (some of the music)
- Macross 7 Encore (some of the music)
- Macross Dynamite 7 (some of the music)
- Macross Plus
- Memories: Magnetic Rose
- Mind Game (one instrumental piece)
- Noiseman Sound Insect
- Please Save My Earth (in collaboration with Hajime Mizoguchi)
- RahXephon (opening theme for TV & OVA)
- RahXephon: Pluralitas Concentino (ending theme)
- Record of Lodoss War: Chronicles of the Heroic Knight (opening theme)
- Sousei no Aquarion
- Turn-A Gundam
- Turn-A Gundam: Earth Light
- Turn-A Gundam: Moonlight Butterfly
- The Vision of Escaflowne (in collaboration with Hajime Mizoguchi)
- Wolf's Rain (TV & OVA)
Film works
All of the films are live-action except for Noiseman Sound Insect.
- Ashura-jo no Hitomi (Blood Gets in Your Eyes) [2] (http://www.ashurajo.com/)
- Beautiful Sunday
- Boku wa Benkyou ga Dekinai (I Can't Study)
- Mizu no Onna (Woman of Water)
- Natsujikan no Otonatachi (Adults of Summertime)
- Onkyou Seimeitai Noiseman (Noiseman Sound Insect)
- tokyo.sora [3] (http://www.tokyo-sora.jp/)
- Shimotsuma Monogatari (Kamikaze Girls) [4] (http://www.shimotsuma-movie.jp/)
Video games
- Cowboy Bebop
- Earthwinds [5] (http://www.chudahs-corner.com/reviews/vicl60159.html)
- Genghis Khan
- Napple Tale
- Nobunaga's Ambition
- Romance of the Three Kingdoms
- Storm of the Meiji Restoration
- True Legend of Nobunaga I & II
- Uncharted Waters I & II
Hired vocalists
- AFRA
- Akino Arai
- Pierre Bensusan
- Emily Bindiger
- Donna Burke
- Steve Conte
- Cosmic Voices from Bulgaria
- Crystal Kay
- Tulivu-Donna Cumberbatch
- Emily Curtis
- Ilaria Graziano [6] (http://members.shaw.ca/ykdb/people/ilaria_graziano.html)
- Reynada Hill
- Seika Iwashita
- Tokiko Kato
- Kyoko Katsunuma
- Joyce (singer)
- Scott Matthew
- M (singer)
- Maryanne Murray
- Kaoru Nishino
- Origa
- Aki Okui
- Soichiro Otsuka
- Raiché Coutev Sisters
- Raj Ramayya [7] (http://members.shaw.ca/ykdb/people/raj_ramayya.html)
- Jadwiga Rappé
- Gabriela Robin
- Maaya Sakamoto
- Franco Sansalone
- Shanti Snyder
- Artur Stefanowicz
- Sydney Thiam
- Carla Vallet
- Wuyontana
- Chinatsu Yamamoto
- Mai Yamane
External links
- The Yoko Kanno Project (http://jameswong.com/ykproject)
- Yoko Kanno Database_ (http://ykdb.webhop.net/)
- A Gabriela Robin Site (http://www.geocities.com/gabriella_robin/)
- Grand Funk Inc. Official Site (http://www.grandfunk.net/)
- Yōko Kanno (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0437819/) at the Internet Movie Database
- Nippop Profile | Yoko Kanno (http://nippop.com/artist/artist_id-133/artist_name-yoko_kanno/)de:Kanno Yōko