Raj Ramayya is a singer and musician, currently based in Japan. His family is from Central India, but he was born and raised in Saskatchewan, Canada. His father wanted him to be a doctor, but he wanted to be a musician and it might have been that pressure from his family which caused him to move to Japan. He is still trying to master the language after 9 years. There he obtained the chance of singing on a compilation CD by Fuji Pacific, and other offers followed. Wikipedia
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Quoting from http://www.gungrave.net/music.html (now offline): "The entire soundtrack was composed by Imahori Tsuneo. His past works include the music for the Trigun anime series, and more recently, Hajime no Ippo. He has also contributed to the music o members.shaw.ca/ykdb/people/raj_ramayya.html