Yoko Kanno

Personal Info

Know For

Sound

Gender

Female

Birthday

1963-03-18 (62 years old)

Place of Birth

Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

Yoko Kanno

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 h...

Production

2001

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie

as Original Music Composer

2004

Kamikaze Girls

as Original Music Composer

2005

Ashura

as Original Music Composer

2007

Genesis of Aquarion: Wings of Genesis

as Original Music Composer

2009

Macross Frontier: The False Songstress

as Original Music Composer

2011

Macross Frontier: The Wings of Farewell

as Original Music Composer

1996

1997

Noiseman Sound Insect

as Original Music Composer

1995

Memories

as Original Music Composer

2015

Our Little Sister

as Original Music Composer

2017

Sangokushi 30th Anniversary Concert

as Original Music Composer

1999

Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade

as Theme Song Performance

2002

tokyo.sora

as Music

2001

Future Blues

as Music

1995

Macross Plus: The Movie

as Original Music Composer

2000

Escaflowne: The Movie

as Original Music Composer

2004

Mind Game

as Musician

2006

2007

Genius Party

as Original Music Composer

2006

Su-ki-da

as Music

2013

Petal Dance

as Music

2010

2007

1997

2012

Cowboy Bebop: Don't Bother None

as Original Music Composer

2014

The World of Kanako

as Original Music Composer

2007

The Show Must Go On

as Original Music Composer

1998

2009

Ring of Gundam

as Original Music Composer

2002

Woman of Water

as Original Music Composer

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