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 Prefecture, 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.
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Seatbelts
band
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Maaya Sakamoto
Japanese actress, voice actress and singer
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Origa
Russian singer
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Ilaria Graziano
Italian singer (1985-)
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Rasmus Faber
Swedish musician
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Tsuneo Imahori
Japanese musician
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Akiko Yano
Japanese singer-songwriter (1955-)
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Yoko Shimomura
Japanese composer and pianist
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Kenji Ito
musician
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Chiaki Ishikawa
Japanese singer-songwriter
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Yui Makino
Japanese voice actress
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Nagi Yanagi
Japanese singer-songwriter
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Michiru Yamane
Japanese game composer
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May'n
Japanese singer (1989-)
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Kokia
Japanese singer
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Haruomi Hosono
Japanese musician, Yellow Magic Orchestra member (1947-)
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Hiroko Moriguchi
Japanese singer
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Miki Matsubara
Japanese singer-songwriter (1959-2004)
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Ryuichi Sakamoto
Japanese musician
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Izumi Sakai
japanese singer
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Sugizo
Japanese rock musician and music producer (1969-)
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Kaori Kishitani
Japanese singer-songwriter
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Takahito Eguchi
Japanese musician