Yoko Kanno
Yoko Kanno (菅野 よう子 Kanno Yōko) is a famous composer and keyboardist known for her performances and musical scores in anime titles.
She has created game music for Koei. Some of her most famous music pieces are "Tank!" (Cowboy Bebop), "Voices" (Macross Plus), "Dance of Curse" (Escaflowne), "Gravity" (Wolf’s Rain), and "Rush" (Cowboy Bebop). She was the lead member of a band called The Seatbelts, which was formed for the sole purpose of making the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack.
Apart from anime and games, Kanno also composes for films and CMs (television advertisements or commercials) for all sorts of brands. Grand Funk Inc. is her recording studio of choice in producing for those media.
There is some speculation that one of her frequently hired vocalists, Gabriela Robin, is Kanno herself under a pseudonym.
She is currently married to fellow composer Hajime Mizoguchi, with whom she collaborated on the soundtracks for Please Save My Earth and Escaflowne.
She has attended Otakon and Anime Expo in 1999, as well as Anime Expo New York in 2002.
Anime works
- Brain Powerd
- Cardcaptor Sakura (TV opening theme)
- Cowboy Bebop
- Cowboy Bebop: Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
- Dai-Guard (Ending theme; "Rocking Horse Stars")
- Earth Girl Arjuna
- Escaflowne: The Movie (in collaboration with Hajime Mizoguchi)
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
- Ghost in the Shell: Tachikoma Days
- Jin-Roh (Piano)
- Macross 7 (some of the music)
- Macross 7 Encore (some of the music)
- Macross Dynamite 7 (some of the music)
- Macross Plus
- Macross Zero (some of the music)
- Magnetic Rose
- Mindgame
- Noiseman Sound Insect
- Please Save My Earth (in collaboration with Hajime Mizoguchi)
- RahXephon (opening theme for TV & OVA)
- RahXephon: Pluralitas Concentino (ending theme)
- Record of Lodoss War: Chronicles of the Heroic Knight (opening theme)
- Sousei no Aquarion
- Turn-A Gundam
- Turn-A Gundam: Earth Light
- Turn-A Gundam: Moonlight Butterfly
- The Vision of Escaflowne (in collaboration with Hajime Mizoguchi)
- Wolf’s Rain (TV & OVA)
Film works
- Beautiful Sunday
- Boku wa Benkyou ga Dekinai (I Can’t Study)
- Mizu no Onna (Woman of Water)
- Natsujikan no Otonatachi (Adults of Summertime)
- Onkyou Seimeitai Noiseman (Noiseman Sound Insect)
- tokyo.sora
- Shimotsuma Monogatari (Kamikaze Girls)
Video Games
- Dai Koukai Jidai (Era of Great Voyage / Uncharted Waters)
- Napple Tale
- Nobunaga’s Ambition
Hired vocalists
- AFRA
- Akino Arai
- Pierre Bensusan
- Emily Bindiger
- Donna Burke
- Steve Conte
- Cosmic Voices from Bulgaria
- Crystal Kay
- Tulivu-Donna Cumberbatch
- Emily Curtis
- Ilaria Graziano
- Reynada Hill
- Seika Iwashita
- Tokiko Kato
- Kyoko Katsunuma
- Joyce (singer)
- Scott Matthew
- M (singer)
- Maryanne Murray
- Kaoru Nishino
- Origa
- Aki Okui
- Soichiro Otsuka
- Raiché Coutev Sisters
- Raju Ramayya (The Beautiful Losers)
- Jadwiga Rappé
- Gabriela Robin
- Maaya Sakamoto
- Franco Sansalone
- Shanti Snyder
- Artur Stefanowicz
- Sydney Thiam
- Carla Vallet
- Wuyontana
- Chinatsu Yamamoto
- Mai Yamane
External links
(Source: Wikipedia)
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January 16th, 2006 at 11:00 am
Hi, I`m sending you this e-mail to ask you if I could use the song “Tank” for a movie that I did at College. This movie is a critic about the important place that the sex is taking in our society. This song will be use when the main caracter will be walking down the streets in accelarate. The title of our movie is “Supersex Me”. Thank you! I wish I get news soon.
Alexis.
March 1st, 2006 at 12:17 am
Hi! I’m Maria, from Spain, and I’m 17.
I’m writing this one because I have a little band with my friends: sax,drums,trumpet,brass… and we all love Cowboy Bebop and its music, so we’d love to play it. How can we find the sheets to play? For example, Tank or New York Rush, which are two of our favourites.
Thanks!!
May 11th, 2006 at 10:22 pm
Can anyoine tell me what Yoko Kanno’s email is or where i can get copyright for one of her songs for a collage project please email me thank you
November 3rd, 2006 at 3:55 am
I love the ghost in the shell:stand alone complex,will someone please tell me where can I get a ghost in the shell album or the music please?! I beg you
January 24th, 2007 at 7:18 am
do you have or can find a music sheet called “Space Lion” its by Yoko Kano. and thank you for your time
October 8th, 2007 at 4:57 am
Hi, Im trying to play “フレンズ” (Friends) by Yoko Kanno(from Wolf’s Rain OST 2) on the piano so Im looking for the music sheet. Can you tell me how I can find it?
January 23rd, 2008 at 12:12 am
Hello, I love the music from Yoko Kanno. I would like to get the sheet music from her song “Gravity”, which was also used for the anime Wolf’s Rain.Thank you. ^^
March 28th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
Please, if you are the real Yoko Kanno I need to send you a message. I was listening to your music as I was writing this short story, and when I came to the end I was completely inspired by “Dream in a Pie.” I really want to send you the story and thank you. If you’re not the real Yoko Kanno, please tell me where I should look.
SilveyStarDust@gmail.com
May 3rd, 2008 at 6:46 am
i’d like to get the sheet music for the piano for the song “Gravity, im learning how to pla the piano n thats a song i would like to learn how to play
November 3rd, 2008 at 5:36 am
I’d love it if you could please send me the solo piano sheet music for “tank!” from cowboy bebop! I love the anime, but the song gets me every time, and I’ve always wanted to play it. If this is possible, I’d be very grateful. Thank you so much!