Yoko Kanno
- Sound
- March 18, 1963 · Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
Biography
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
Filmography
- The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House · Music
- SPY x FAMILY · Theme Song Performance
- Cowboy Bebop · Music
- Sangokushi 30th Anniversary Concert · Music
- Naotora: The Lady Warlord · Music
- Our Little Sister · Music
- Terror in Resonance · Music
- The World of Kanako · Music
- Space Dandy · Music
- Gochisousan · Music
- Petal Dance · Music
- Ein's Summer Vacation · Music
- Cowboy Bebop: Don't Bother None · Music
- Kids on the Slope · Music
- Macross Frontier: The Wings of Farewell · Music
- Maaya Sakamoto 15th Anniversary Live "Gift" at Nippon Budokan
- Surely Someday · Music
- Macross Frontier Galaxy Tour Final in Budokan
- Macross Frontier: The False Songstress · Music
- Ring of Gundam · Music
- Ink Music: In the Land of the Hundred-Tongued Lyricist · Self
- Macross Frontier · Music
- Aoi Yū × Yottsu no Uso Camouflage · Music
- Genesis of Aquarion: Wings of Genesis · Music
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society · Music
- Genius Party · Music
- Say Hello for Me · Music
- Darker than Black · Music
- The Show Must Go On · Music
- Honey and Clover · Music
- Ōban Star-Racers · Theme Song Performance
- Su-ki-da · Music
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG - Individual Eleven · Music
- A Melody for My Father · Music
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man · Music
- Ashura · Music
- Aquarion · Music, Lyricist
- Mind Game · Musician
- Kamikaze Girls · Music
- Memories of Memories · Self
- Wolf's Rain · Music
- Macross Zero · Additional Music
- Woman of Water · Music
- tokyo.sora · Music
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex · Music
- Turn A Gundam II: Moonlight Butterfly · Music
- Turn A Gundam I: Earth Light · Music
- Tachikoma na hibi
- Future Blues · Self, Music
- Cowboy Bebop: The Movie · Music
- Earth Maiden Arjuna · Music
- Seatbelts: Souvenir of Tokyo
- Escaflowne: The Movie · Music
- Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade · Theme Song Performance, Musician
- Turn A Gundam · Music
- Beautiful Sunday · Music
- Brain Powerd · Music
- Cowboy Bebop · Music
- Noiseman Sound Insect · Music
- Happy-Go-Lucky · Music
- I Can’t Study · Music
- The Vision of Escaflowne · Musician, Music
- Memories · Music
- Macross Plus: The Movie · Music
- Macross 7 · Additional Music
- Macross Plus · Music
- Yamato Takeru · Music
- Please Save My Earth · Music