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.
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Movies (43)
Sangokushi 30th Anniversary Concert
2017 · Original Music Composer
Our Little Sister
2015 · Original Music Composer
The World of Kanako
2014 · Original Music Composer
Petal Dance
2013 · Music
Ein's Summer Vacation
2012 · Music
Cowboy Bebop: Don't Bother None
2012 · Original Music Composer
Macross Frontier: The Wings of Farewell
2011 · Original Music Composer
Maaya Sakamoto 15th Anniversary Live "Gift" at Nippon Budokan
2010
Surely Someday
2010 · Music
Macross Frontier Galaxy Tour Final in Budokan
2009
Macross Frontier: The False Songstress
2009 · Original Music Composer
Ring of Gundam
2009 · Original Music Composer
Ink Music: In the Land of the Hundred-Tongued Lyricist
2009 · Self
Genius Party Beyond
2008 · Kuu (segment "Dimension Bomb") (voice)
Genesis of Aquarion: Wings of Genesis
2007 · Original Music Composer
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society
2007 · Original Music Composer
Genius Party
2007 · Original Music Composer
Say Hello for Me
2007 · Music
The Show Must Go On
2007 · Original Music Composer
Honey and Clover
2006 · Music
Su-ki-da
2006 · Music
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG - Individual Eleven
2006 · Music
A Melody for My Father
2005 · Music
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man
2005 · Original Music Composer
Ashura
2005 · Original Music Composer
Mind Game
2004 · Musician
Kamikaze Girls
2004 · Original Music Composer
Memories of Memories
2004 · Self (archive)
Woman of Water
2002 · Original Music Composer
tokyo.sora
2002 · Music
Turn A Gundam II: Moonlight Butterfly
2002 · Music
Turn A Gundam I: Earth Light
2002 · Music
Future Blues
2001 · Self, Music
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
2001 · Original Music Composer
Seatbelts: Souvenir of Tokyo
2001
Escaflowne: The Movie
2000 · Original Music Composer
Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade
1999 · Musician, Theme Song Performance
Beautiful Sunday
1998 · Music
Noiseman Sound Insect
1997 · Original Music Composer
Happy-Go-Lucky
1997 · Music, Original Music Composer
I Can’t Study
1996 · Music
Memories
1995 · Original Music Composer
Macross Plus: The Movie
1995 · Original Music Composer
TV shows (26)
The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House
2023 · Original Music Composer
SPY x FAMILY
2022 · Theme Song Performance
Cowboy Bebop
2021 · Original Music Composer
Naotora: The Lady Warlord
2017 · Original Music Composer
Terror in Resonance
2014 · Original Music Composer
Space Dandy
2014 · Original Music Composer
Gochisousan
2013 · Music
Kids on the Slope
2012 · Music
Macross Frontier
2008 · Original Music Composer
Aoi Yū × Yottsu no Uso Camouflage
2008 · Music
Darker than Black
2007 · Original Music Composer
Ōban Star-Racers
2006 · Theme Song Performance
Aquarion
2005 · Music, Lyricist, Theme Song Performance
Wolf's Rain
2003 · Original Music Composer
Macross Zero
2002 · Additional Music
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
2002 · Original Music Composer
Tachikoma na hibi
2002
Earth Maiden Arjuna
2001 · Music
Turn A Gundam
1999 · Music, Original Music Composer
Brain Powerd
1998 · Original Music Composer
Cowboy Bebop
1998 · Original Music Composer
The Vision of Escaflowne
1996 · Musician, Original Music Composer
Macross 7
1994 · Additional Music
Macross Plus
1994 · Original Music Composer
Yamato Takeru
1994 · Music
Please Save My Earth
1993 · Music