Yoko Kanno

Yoko Kanno

  • Birthday: 1963-03-18
  • Place of birth: Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
  • Also know as: Gabriella Robin

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.

Filmography

Production

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie

2001

As Original Music Composer

Kamikaze Girls

2004

As Original Music Composer

Ashura

2005

As Original Music Composer

Tokyo.Sora

2002

As Music

Macross Frontier: The False Songstress

2009

As Original Music Composer

Macross Frontier: The Wings of Farewell

2011

As Original Music Composer

Our Little Sister

2015

As Original Music Composer

Future Blues

2001

As Music

Macross Plus: The Movie

1995

As Original Music Composer

Genius Party

2007

As Original Music Composer

Honey and Clover

2006

As Music

Mind Game

2004

As Musician

Please Save My Earth

1993

As Music

Petal Dance

2013

As Music

Happy Go Lucky

1997

As Music

Woman of Water

2002

As Music

Su-ki-da

2006

As Music

Say Hello for Me

2007

As Music

Surely Someday

2010

As Music

Cowboy Bebop: Don't Bother None

2012

As Original Music Composer

The World of Kanako

2014

As Original Music Composer

The Show Must Go On

2007

As Original Music Composer

Beautiful Sunday

1998

As Music

Ring of Gundam

2009

As Original Music Composer

Genesis of Aquarion: Wings of Genesis

2007

As Original Music Composer

Noiseman Sound Insect

1997

As Original Music Composer

Memories

1995

As Original Music Composer

Sangokushi 30th Anniversary Concert

2017

As Original Music Composer

Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade

1999

As Theme Song Performance

Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade

1999

As Musician

Escaflowne: The Movie

2000

As Original Music Composer

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