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Yoko Kanno (菅野よう子 Kanno Yōko, born March 19, 1964 in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan) is a famous composer and keyboardist known for her performances and musical scores in anime titles.

Biography

Some of her most famous soundtrack themes include "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 regrouped in the year of 2004 to compose the soundtrack of the Cowboy Bebop game, scheduled for a 2006 US release. It is also rumored that Yoko Kanno will be making the opening theme for the live-action series Kamen Rider Kabuto, with the song being titled "FIRE".

She has composed for many Koei games released during the late 1980s to early 1990s and for a Dreamcast game. Due to her close involvement 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.

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.

On September 13, 2005, GameSpot reported Kanno has been hired by Gravity Corporation to do the scoring for their in-development MMORPG, Ragnarok Online 2.

Anime works

Brain Powered
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: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG
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)
The Other Side of Midnight (featuring Maaya Sakamoto)

Film works

All of the films are live-action except for Noiseman Sound Insect.

Ashura-jo no Hitomi (Blood Gets in Your Eyes)
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)
Shimotsuma Monogatari (Kamikaze Girls)
tokyo.sora

Video games

Cowboy Bebop
Earthwinds
Genghis Khan
Napple Tale
Nobunaga's Ambition
Ragnarok Online 2 (upcoming)
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Storm of the Meiji Restoration
True Legend of Nobunaga I & II
Uncharted Waters I & II

Hired vocalists

AFRA
Aki Okui
Akino
Akino Arai
Artur Stefanowicz
Carla Vallet
Chinatsu Yamamoto
Chris Mosdell
Cosmic Voices from Bulgaria
Crystal Kay
Donna Burke
Emily Bindiger
Emily Curtis
Franco Sansalone
Gabriela Robin
Ilaria Graziano
Jadwiga Rappe'
Joyce (singer)
Kaoru Nishino
Kyoko Katsunuma
M (singer)
Maaya Sakamoto
Mai Yamane
Maryanne Murray
Origa
Pierre Bensusan
Raiche' Coutev Sisters
Raj Ramayya
Reynada Hill
Scott Matthew
Seika Iwashita
Shanti Snyder
Soichiro Otsuka
Steve Conte
Sydney Thiam
Tokiko Kato
Tulivu-Donna Cumberbatch
Wuyontana

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