Known For
Sound
Born
Mar 18, 1963
Place of Birth
Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
Credits
68 titles
Yoko Kanno
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.
Known For
Filmography
The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House
Original Music Composer
SPY x FAMILY
Theme Song Performance
Cowboy Bebop
Original Music Composer
Sangokushi 30th Anniversary Concert
Original Music Composer
Naotora: The Lady Warlord
Original Music Composer
Our Little Sister
Original Music Composer
Terror in Resonance
Original Music Composer
The World of Kanako
Original Music Composer
Space Dandy
Original Music Composer
Gochisousan
Music
Petal Dance
Music
Ein's Summer Vacation
Music
Cowboy Bebop: Don't Bother None
Original Music Composer
Kids on the Slope
Music
Macross Frontier: The Wings of Farewell
Original Music Composer
Maaya Sakamoto 15th Anniversary Live "Gift" at Nippon Budokan
Surely Someday
Music
Macross Frontier Galaxy Tour Final in Budokan
Macross Frontier: The False Songstress
Original Music Composer
Ring of Gundam
Original Music Composer
Ink Music: In the Land of the Hundred-Tongued Lyricist
Self
Macross Frontier
Original Music Composer
Aoi Yū × Yottsu no Uso Camouflage
Music
Genesis of Aquarion: Wings of Genesis
Original Music Composer
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society
Original Music Composer
Genius Party
Original Music Composer
Say Hello for Me
Music
Darker than Black
Original Music Composer
The Show Must Go On
Original Music Composer
Honey and Clover
Music
Ōban Star-Racers
Theme Song Performance
Su-ki-da
Music
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG - Individual Eleven
Music
A Melody for My Father
Music
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man
Original Music Composer
Ashura
Original Music Composer
Aquarion
Music
Mind Game
Musician
Kamikaze Girls
Original Music Composer
Memories of Memories
Self (archive)
Wolf's Rain
Original Music Composer
Macross Zero
Additional Music
Woman of Water
Original Music Composer
tokyo.sora
Music
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Original Music Composer
Turn A Gundam II: Moonlight Butterfly
Music
Turn A Gundam I: Earth Light
Music
Tachikoma na hibi
Future Blues
Self
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
Original Music Composer