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Nobuo Uematsu (Born March 21, 1959) is best known for his composition for the Squaresoft (now Square Enix) games company throughout the 1980s and 1990s, most notably on the Final Fantasy series of games. Composing all his work on the keyboards, he has been hailed as one of the most popular and beloved composers of video game soundtracks.

Uematsu enjoyed commercial success with the track “Eyes on Me” from Final Fantasy VIII, performed by Hong Kong singer Faye Wong (Faye Wong). This song, released in 1999, sold 400,000 copies, a record for any track taken from a video game, as well as winning the “Song of the Year” award at the 1999 Japan Gold Disc Awards. Uematsu was subsequently named in Time Magazine’s list of the Top 100 Innovators - Music, and has toured Japan playing classical concerts on several occasions.

His music itself is notoriously eclectic, tracks featured skip between pop-style balladry, to fusion styles incorporating african traditions to, in recent years, a number of celtic-influenced recordings and releases. Many of his works also contain elements of progressive rock and hard rock. His formation of The Black Mages, a rock band, in 2003, allowed him to experiment with his own compositions, releasing band renditions of a significant number of tracks from his soundtracks.

In October 2004, Uematsu formed Smile Please Co., Ltd. and continues to compose for Square Enix along with several other companies. In his composition for the sequel-film Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, Uematsu was credited from Smile Please Co.

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storytellingman wrote:
Friday evening

"it really don't even fucking matter at all who the fuck you're tagging it as since it's all wrong anyway."... unless you tag it correctly, like me.

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iohankaus wrote:
Thursday afternoon

God.. Where is Terra's Theme? Somewhere Tagged as Tina Theme ¬¬

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Pointpurple wrote:
Wednesday evening

God.. Where is Terra's Theme? Pfht, Final Fantasy in 3D..

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tyrique12 wrote:
Tuesday evening

lmao Nobuo didn't compose anything on FFx2 it was that noriko matsuaotjeaitn woman with that other guy

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Tezza_Larks wrote:
Tuesday evening

BADBOY CHOONS ON FF X2 OST

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Richnfg wrote:
Monday afternoon

Is it me or has Uematsu's plays rocketed this week? I'm glad, either way!

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tyrique12 wrote:
Monday morning

Final Fantasy VIII piano collections is really strange compared to all of the other ones :S It's really beautiful though

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Milli_chan wrote:
Sunday evening

♥

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SOME-GIRLS wrote:
last week

awesome dude.

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Plasmaterial wrote:
last week

Heh, he's only a few months older than my mother. xD

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Plasmaterial wrote:
last week

I have to say, this man's music perfectly fits the game and emotional values, that he writes them for, creating a hybrid that goes so much further in power beyond the average video game.

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MetalMagi wrote:
last week

The Final Fantasy 9 OST is one of the reasons I can continue to live.

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tyrique12 wrote:
last week

What about it? Are you disputing the greatness of J-E-N-O-V-A? >:| < I think he has much better compositions

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Bakashih wrote:
last week

the extreme is awesome ;~

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M4R1LIA wrote:
last week

It's Coubert!!!

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River_Of_Heaven wrote:
last week

Lord of Vermilion OST \m/

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trm989 wrote:
last week

Prelude is the best.

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clytie_hizashi wrote:
last week

"there's really no point in even arguing about it" [2]

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KnightsofRound wrote:
last week

by the way I don't actually care how people tag his music I'm just saying... there's really no point in even arguing about it :)

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KnightsofRound wrote:
last week

If you want to get technical, almost everyone on last.fm is tagging his music wrong anyway REGARDLESS of what name you're using because the correct tags for almost every song he has ever composed aside from the FFVIII soundtrack is originally titled in Japanese. So in the grand scheme of things it really don't even fucking matter at all who the fuck you're tagging it as since it's all wrong anyway.

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