birthdate: '1963-03-18'
birthplace: Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
discography:
- catalog: VICL-60760
  date: '2001-08-08'
  link: album/109058
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Composer
  titles:
    en: Easy Listening / Maaya Sakamoto
    ja: イージーリスニング / 坂本 真綾
    ja-latn: Easy Listening / Maaya Sakamoto
  type: works
- catalog: VTZL-96
  date: '2015-01-28'
  link: album/49286
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Composer
  titles:
    en: Shiawase ni Tsuite Watashi ga Shitteiru Itsutsu no Houhou/Shikisai / Maaya
      Sakamoto [Limited Edition]
    ja: 幸せについて私が知っている5つの方法/色彩 / 坂本真綾
    ja-latn: Shiawase ni Tsuite Watashi ga Shitteiru Itsutsu no Houhou/Shikisai /
      Maaya Sakamoto [Limited Edition]
  type: game
featured_on: []
info:
  Birthdate: Mar 18, 1963
  Birthplace: Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
  Bloodtype: O
  Credited works: 2 albums in database
  Credits: 2 composer
  Education: School of Letters, Arts and Sciences I, Waseda University (dropped out)
link: artist/62649
meta:
  added_date: 2024-04-02T21:42
  edited_date: 2024-04-02T21:42
  fetched_date: 2026-01-10T07:09
  ttl: 86400
  visitors: 504
name: Yoko Kanno
name_real: カンノ ヨウコ
notes: 'Yoko Kanno is a classically trained composer and arranger for Japanese Media.
  Famous for Cowboy Bebop, Escaflowne, Ghost in the Shell and NHK Taiga Drama Ladylord
  Naotora. She writes music in various styles, from Jazz to 20th Century Film and
  Classical music, collaborating with many skilled artists, from singers to instrumentalists.
  In 1991 she composed for an art gallery show conducted by Fujishiro Seiji and entitled
  the Merchen Collection, composed of painted pictures of the world creation. In the
  90s she worked on various Koei Games and is one of the pioneers of orchestral video
  game music. In 1994 she recorded with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra for Macross
  Plus. In 1996 she recorded with the Members of the Czech Philharmonic and the Prague
  Philharmonic Choir for Magnetic Rose. In 1998 she worked with The Seatbelts on Cowboy
  Bebop. She had a longlasting collaboration with the Warsaw Philharmonic National
  Orchestra of Poland: Nobunaga''s Ambition, Turn A Gundam, Escaflowne, Ghost in the
  Shell, Brain Powerd, Song to Fly, Wolf''s Rain, Genesis of Aquarion and Macross
  Frontier. In 2013 she recorded with the Vienna Opera Ball Orchestra for the TV series
  Gochisousan. In 2017 she recorded with the NHK Symphony Orchestra for NHK Taiga
  Drama Ladylord Naotora. In 2019 she composed and conducted a symphonic piece for
  the new Emperor of Japan in the first year of Reiwa.'
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picture_small: https://thumb-media.vgm.io/artists/91/319/319-1637026065.png
sex: female
twitter_names:
- YokoKannoCH
type: Alternate spelling of Yoko Kanno菅野よう子
vgmdb_link: https://vgmdb.net/artist/62649?perpage=99999
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