Yoko Kanno
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
- Sound
- Born
- 1963-03-18 · Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
Known for
- SPY x FAMILY (2022) — Theme Song Performance
- Cowboy Bebop (1998) — Original Music Composer
- Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001) — Original Music Composer
- Memories (1995) — Original Music Composer
- Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (1999) — Theme Song Performance
- Our Little Sister (2015) — Original Music Composer
- Cowboy Bebop (2021) — Original Music Composer
- Terror in Resonance (2014) — Original Music Composer
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2002) — Original Music Composer
- Mind Game (2004) — Musician
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society (2007) — Original Music Composer
- Darker than Black (2007) — Original Music Composer
- Kamikaze Girls (2004) — Original Music Composer
- The World of Kanako (2014) — Original Music Composer
- Wolf's Rain (2003) — Original Music Composer
- The Vision of Escaflowne (1996) — Musician