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Yoko Kanno (1964- )
Yoko Kanno born in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan is a composer, arranger and musician best known for her work on the soundtracks for many seminal anime films, TV series, live-action movies, and TV Advertisements. She wrote the score for famous animated works, including Macross Plus, Cowboy Bebop, Vision of Escaflowne and Wolf's Rain, and is the most trusted composer by veteran and new-wave directors such as Yoshiyuki Tomino, Shinichiro Watanabe and Shoji Kawamori. In addition to soundtracks Kanno occasionally composes music for JPop artists as well, the most notable being Maaya Sakamoto and Kyoko Koizumi. She is also a musician, most notably a skilled keyboardist, and is the composer and frontress for the band The Seatbelts, which performs many of Kanno's compositions on the various original soundtracks for which she is responsible.

Some of Yoko Kanno's most famous soundtrack themes include "Voices" (Macross Plus), "Tank!" (Cowboy Bebop), "Yakusoku wa Iranai" (Escaflowne), "Gravity" (Wolf's Rain), "Inner Universe" (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex) and Stand Alone Complex O.S.T . She was the lead member of the project band called The Seatbelts, which regrouped in the year of 2004 to compose the soundtrack of the Cowboy Bebop game, released in the US last 2006.

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). Some popular brands she has composed for are Canon, DoCoMo, Fuji Xerox, Seven-Eleven, Microsoft, Nissan, Toyota, Shiseido, Avon, and Master Card to name a few. 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.

She is 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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