Yoko Kanno

Film & TV

Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

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…

Known for

• Maaya Sakamoto 15th Anniversary Live "Gift" at Nippon Budokan2010
• Macross Frontier Galaxy Tour Final in Budokan2009
• Ink Music: In the Land of the Hundred-Tongued Lyricist — Self2009
• Memories of Memories — Self (archive)2004
• Seatbelts: Souvenir of Tokyo2001
• Future Blues — Self2001

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Country

Japan

Active from

1964

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

225,563

Total plays

15,798,831

菅野よう子 (Yōko Kanno), born March 19, 1964 in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, is a Japanese composer, arranger and musician best known for her work on the soundtracks for many games, anime films, TV series, live-action movies, and advertisements. She has written scores for famous animated works, including "Macross Plus", "Turn A Gundam", "Cowboy Bebop", "The Vision of Escaflowne", "Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex", "Wolf's Rain", and is the most trusted composer by veteran and new-wave directors

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Yōko

Gender

female

Citizenship

Japan

Place of birth

Sendai

Spouse

Hajime Mizoguchi

Occupation

film score composer

Languages spoken

Japanese

Field of work

film score

Genre

art rock

Instrument

voice

Record label

Victor Entertainment

Official website

yokokanno.ch

Image

Yoko Kanno.jpg

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