Yoko Kanno
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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.
Known for
Credits
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001)
Original Music Composer
Kamikaze Girls (2004)
Original Music Composer
Memories (1995)
Original Music Composer
Our Little Sister (2015)
Original Music Composer
Macross Plus: The Movie (1995)
Original Music Composer
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society (2007)
Original Music Composer
Escaflowne: The Movie (2000)
Original Music Composer
The World of Kanako (2014)
Original Music Composer
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man (2005)
Original Music Composer
Macross Frontier: The False Songstress (2009)
Original Music Composer
Macross Frontier: The Wings of Farewell (2011)
Original Music Composer
Genius Party (2007)
Original Music Composer
Ashura (2005)
Original Music Composer
The Show Must Go On (2007)
Original Music Composer
Noiseman Sound Insect (1997)
Original Music Composer
Genesis of Aquarion: Wings of Genesis (2007)
Original Music Composer
Happy-Go-Lucky (1997)
Original Music Composer
Cowboy Bebop: Don't Bother None (2012)
Original Music Composer
Ring of Gundam (2009)
Original Music Composer
Woman of Water (2002)
Original Music Composer
Sangokushi 30th Anniversary Concert (2017)
Original Music Composer