- Nobuo Uematsu
is a Japanese composer of video game music, and one of the most well-known, prolific, and versatile in the field. He has composed music for many games produced by Square Enix (formerly Square), including much of the "Final Fantasy" series of role playing games, and some pieces for "Chrono Trigger". - Hitoshi Sakimoto
is a video game music composer. He was born in 1969 and worked freelance beginning in 1990. When he was just starting out in the field of music, he would write his name as "YmoH.S". He used this signature when he was about 22-23 years old because to avoid other company steal talented artist.. In 1997, Sakimoto joined Square Co., Ltd.. Later on, in 2000, after completing his work on the action/RPG hybrid title "Vagrant Story", … - Masashi Hamauzu
Masashi Hamauzu is a video game music composer who has worked for Square Enix for more than a decade. Hamauzu's start with the company came by creating a small handful of tracks (along with other composers) for "Front Mission: Gun Hazard" (1996) and "Tobal No. 1" (1996). Later collaborations would include "Final Fantasy X" (2001) (with Nobuo Uematsu and Junya Nakano) and "Musashi: Samurai Legend" (2005) (with Junya Nakano, … - Kenji Yamamoto
Kenji Yamamoto is a Japanese video game musician working for Nintendo. - Kenji Yamamoto
Kenji Yamamoto is a Japanese video game musician who has composed the music for several Dragon Ball Z video games. - Yoko Shimomura
is a Japanese composer and musician best known for her soundtracks for various video games. See video game music. - Yasunori Mitsuda
Yasunori Mitsuda is a Japanese composer, sound programmer and musician best known for his work in video game music, specifically "Chrono Trigger", "Chrono Cross", "Shadow Hearts", "Shadow Hearts: Covenant", "Xenogears", "Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht", and "Mario Party". - Koji Kondo
is a Japanese composer and musician best known for his scores for various video games produced by Nintendo. - Tsuyoshi Sekito
is a Japanese video game music composer, arranger and performer. He joined Square Enix in 1995. Before working at Square Enix, he worked for Konami and worked on several games created by Hideo Kojima. After joining Square Enix, he did not score any games until 1998. "Brave Fencer Musashi" was his first assignment for Square Enix. In 2001, his first assignment for the Final Fantasy series was to rescore "Final Fantasy II" for the Wonderswan Color. - Akira Yamaoka
Akira Yamaoka (山岡 晃 "Yamaoka Akira", born February 6 1968 in Niigata, Japan) is a musician and video game composer, having scored dozens of titles released by Konami. Yamaoka attended Tokyo Art College, where he studied product design and interior design. He joined Konami on September 21, 1993, after previously being a freelance music composer. - Junya Nakano
Junya Nakano (born February 28, 1971) is a Japanese video game music composer. He has worked for Square Enix Co., Ltd. for over five years. His notable works include "Treasure Conflix" (1996), "Another Mind" (1998), and "Dewprism" a.k.a. "Threads of Fate" (1999). He has also collaborated on the soundtracks to "Final Fantasy X" (2001) (with Nobuo Uematsu and Masashi Hamauzu) and "Musashi: Samurai Legend" (2005) (with Masashi Hamauzu, … - Naoshi Mizuta
Naoshi Mizuta (水田 直志 "Mizuta Naoshi", born January 24, 1972, in Kochi, Japan) is a Japanese video game music composer. He is a casual video game player. He is known for his work on "Rockman & Forte", "Street Fighter Alpha", "Parasite Eve 2" and "Final Fantasy XI" (with Nobuo Uematsu and Kumi Tanioka). He attended Chiba University, majoring in Law & Economics. - Masaharu Iwata
Masaharu Iwata is a Japanese video game music composer. This great friend of Hitoshi Sakimoto worked on many video games since 1987. His most well-known projects are Ogre Battle, Tactics Ogre, Treasure Hunter G, Final Fantasy Tactics, Baroque, Stella Deus: The Gate of Eternity, and, most recently, Final Fantasy XII. He is now part of Basiscape, a video game music promotion company founded by Hitoshi Sakimoto. - Noriko Matsueda
Noriko Matsueda is a Japanese composer of video game music. Her works include "Front Mission", which she co-composed with Yoko Shimomura, "Bahamut Lagoon" (which she composed by herself), "Racing Lagoon", "The Bouncer", and "Final Fantasy X-2". Matsueda co-composed "Racing Lagoon", "The Bouncer" and "Final Fantasy X-2" with Takahito Eguchi. She also contributed one track to "Chrono Trigger". - Kumi Tanioka
is a Japanese video game music composer. She studied at the University of Kobe before joining Square Co., Ltd. (now Square Enix Co., Ltd.) in 1998. Her works includes "Chocobo's Dungeon 2" (with Yasuhiro Kawakami, Tsuyoshi Sekito and Kenji Ito), "All-Star Pro Wrestling" (with Kenichiro Fukui and Tsuyoshi Sekito), "Final Fantasy XI" (with Naoshi Mizuta and Nobuo Uematsu), "Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles" and, most recently, "Code Age Commanders". - Kurtis Mantronik
Kurtis el Khaleel (born September 4, 1965), known by the stage name Kurtis Mantronik, is an American hip-hop, electro funk, and dance music artist, DJ, remixer, and producer. Mantronik was the former leader, DJ, and keyboardist of the influential 1980s old school hip-hop and electro-funk group Mantronix. Currently, Mantronik lives in Britain, where he has produced and remixed house and techno music tracks by artists such as Kylie Minogue, Fatboy Slim, … - Takahito Eguchi
Takahito Eguchi is a Japanese video game music composer. Eguchi attended Tokyo Conservatoire Shobi, and he has been a first-generation musician. At the age of 6, he was influenced into the music field when he heard his neighbor play the piano, and he would listen to it daily. His father tried to make him to become a sportsman, but later agreed to let him become a musician, first studying piano. - Hajime Wakai
is a Japanese video game composer best known for his work with Nintendo on popular games such as "Star Fox 64". - Faye Wong
Faye Wong (born August 8, 1969 in Beijing) is a Chinese singer, songwriter, actress and model. She is an icon popular in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan and to some extent in the West. One of the most distinguished female vocalists in recent Chinese music history, her following has grown so large and devoted that media in Hong Kong, Taiwan, … - George Sanger
George Alistair Sanger (also known as "The Fat Man") is a musician who has composed music for over 200 different computer and video games, beginning in 1983. Some of his best-known works include "The 7th Guest", "Wing Commander", "Hard Nova", "Maniac Mansion", "LOOM", and "Tux Racer". Sanger leads the band "Team Fat", also comprised of fellow video game music composers Dave Govett, … - Video Game Pianist
The Video Game Pianist, also known as VGP, The Blindfolded Pianist, or his real name Martin Leung, is one of the first pianists to gain worldwide recognition for playing popular video game music on the piano, both in concert venues and in online videos. Unlike many recognized musicians, Video Game Pianist's breakthrough occurred almost entirely online when, on May 10th, 2004, … - Hirokazu Ando
Hirokazu Ando is a Japanese video game music composer for HAL Laboratory. He is best known for his work on the "Super Smash Bros." series, as well as many games in the "Kirby" series. - Jun Ishikawa
Jun Ishikawa is a Japanese video game music composer employed by HAL Laboratory. He is most well-known for his musical contributions to the Kirby series of games. - Utada Hikaru
also known by her fan-nickname of, is a third culture Japanese pop singer-songwriter, arranger and record producer. She has been hailed as one of the most successful, influential and acclaimed musicians in Japanese music history. With the release of her seven studio albums, including one compilation and two all-English, 24 solo singles (18 Japanese and 6 English) and several VHS/DVD releases, she has sold a combined estimated total in Japan of some 36,000,000 records in Japan as of 2007, … - Tadashi Ikegami
Tadashi Ikegami is a Japanese video game music composer for HAL Laboratory who is best known for his assistance work on "Super Smash Bros. Melee", as well as several games in the "Kirby" series. - Russell Lieblich
Russell Lieblich (1953-2005) was a game designer, programmer, and musician who first came to prominence for his music for Activision and Intellivision games, as well as doing the C64 music translation of one of LucasArts first titles, "Ballblazer". He was one of the first to experiment in the realm of music/rhythm-oriented gameplay with a game he designed called "Web Dimension", and then with one of his most loved works, … - Angela Aki
Angela Aki, born on 15 September, 1977 in Itano, Tokushima Prefecture, Shikoku, Japan, to a Japanese father and an Italian-American mother, is a Japanese singer-songwriter. Her former Japanese real name is 安芸 聖世美 ("Aki Kiyomi") Angela Aki is completely bilingual in English and Japanese as she was raised in Japan, but moved to Hawaii at the age of fifteen where she graduated from Iolani School. - Shogo Sakai
"Shogo Sakai" is a Japanese video game music composer, most recently employed by HAL Laboratory. Prior to that, he worked on several soundtracks for Data East in the late 1980s and early 1990s. - Yuka Tsujiyoko
Yuka Tsujiyoko is a Japanese video game music composer for Nintendo. She is the music composer for the Fire Emblem video game franchise, which was not released outside Japan until 2003, and several other Intelligent Systems developed games. She also scored the Super Scope games "Metal Combat: Falcon's Revenge" and "Battle Clash", "Paper Mario" and its sequel "The Thousand-Year Door", and part of "Tetris Attack". - Toru Minegishi
is a Japanese composer best known for his work with Nintendo on the Legend of Zelda Series. - Tsuneo Imahori
Tsuneo Imahori is a Japanese guitarist and composer. He started to play acoustic guitar aged 12, inspired by British folk music from the likes of Bert Jansch, and later the work of Frank Zappa and Andy Partridge. In 1986 he formed the band Tipographica, with saxophonist Naruyoshi Kikuchi and jazz pianist Akira Minakami. After 4 albums, the group disbanded in 1996. After providing the soundtrack to "Gungrave" for the PlayStation 2 in 2002, … - Takeharu Ishimoto
is a Japanese video game music composer and synthesizer programmer currently working at Square Enix. He first worked as a synthesizer programmer before becoming a composer. His first work as a composer is the PlayStation 2 soccer game World Fantasista. More recently, he has been working as one of the composers for the Final Fantasy series. - Kyosuke Himuro
nihongo|Kyosuke Himuro|氷室京介|"Himuro Kyōsuke"|extra= born on October 7, 1960 in Takasaki, Gunma" is a Japanese singer. He was a member of the Japanese legendary rock group "Boøwy" from 1981 to 1988. Tomoyasu Hotei is the same band's member. Now, he lives in Los Angeles, California. He purchased a palatial residence in Beverly Hills in 2004 which Shaquille O'Neal, basketball player, sold because of transference to another team. - Jerry Martin
Jerry Martin is a Jazz and New Age composer, famous for composing songs for TV commercials and also for The Sims and Sim City series. Jerry Martin had music lessons at the age of 10 and played guitar and keyboards in various ensembles through his high school and college. Jerry Martin received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Composition from California State University at Hayward, California. - Donna Burke
Donna Burke, a singer and narrator, was born in Perth, Australia, and moved to Tokyo, Japan in 1996. She lives with her guitarist and husband Bill Benfield and her three cats. Formerly a high school English teacher in Perth, she gave up that pursuit and went on the path of singing and voice acting. Burke has had over 10 years of classical voice lessons, and does jazz, classical, techno, folk, and rock concerts. - Kumi Koda
(born on November 13, 1982) is a Japanese pop singer who debuted in Japan in 2000 with her first single, "Take Back". She did not achieve major success until her seventh single, "Real Emotion / 1000 no Kotoba", which was a hit because of its connection to "Final Fantasy X-2". Her popularity went high in 2005 after the release of "Butterfly" and being named one of the best selling artists of 2005 from the success of "Best ~first things~". - Ryuji Sasai
Ryuji Sasai is a composer of video game music. He is best known for his work with Square on such games as "Final Fantasy Legend 3", "Final Fantasy Mystic Quest", and "Treasure of the Rudras". He also was bass player of Japanese hard rock band Novela. This can be an explanation why many of his songs for game soundtracks have a massive rock influence. - Peter Hajba
Peter Hajba (born December 15 1974) also known by his demoscene nickname Skaven, is a Finnish musician and graphic artist. In spite of having no formal training, he has won numerous awards for his music, including winning the Assembly music competition in 1993, 1995 and 2002. His most recent project is with Remedy Entertainment as an animator, sound designer and graphic artist. - Richard Joseph
Richard Joseph (1953? - 4 March 2007) was a computer game composer, musician and sound specialist. He had a career spanning some 20 years starting in the early days of gaming on the C64 and the Amiga and onto succeeding formats through to the present day. After being diagnosed with lung cancer, he died on 4 March, 2007 aged 53 years. - Emiko Shiratori
Emiko Shiratori is a Japanese singer. She sang in the Sapporo Winter Olympics (1972) and the Nagano Winter Olympics (1998). She is also the wife of Sumio Shiratori. As a vocalist for the video game "Final Fantasy IX", she sang the main theme "Melodies of Life" in both the Japanese and English versions.
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