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Yoko Kanno (Yoko Kanno, Kanno Yōko, 菅野よう子), born March 19, 1964 in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. She is a famous composer and keyboardist known for her performances and musical scores in anime titles, including Cowboy Bebop, Macross Plus, The Vision of Escaflowne, Turn A Gundam, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and many others.

Some of her most famous soundtrack themes include “Voices” (Macross Plus), “The Real Folk Blues” (Cowboy Bebop), “Yakusoku wa Iranai” (Escaflowne), “Gravity” (Wolf’s Rain), and “Inner Universe” (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex). She was the lead member of a band called The Seatbelts, which regrouped in the year of 2004 to compose the soundtrack of the Cowboy Bebop game, scheduled for a 2006 US release. It is also rumored that Yoko Kanno will be making the opening theme for the live-action series Kamen Rider Kabuto, with the song being titled “FIRE”.

She has composed for many Koei games released during the late 19 to early 19 and for a Dreamcast game. Due to her close involvement in the Cowboy Bebop anime, the game released by Bandai also features her work.

Apart from anime and games, Kanno also composes for live-action films and CMs (television advertisements or commercials) for all sorts of brands. Grand Funk Inc. is her recording studio of choice in producing for these two media. Contributions to films started in the 90s but only since 2002 has there been a trend towards the medium. Most of the latter were shown in international film festivals.

There is some speculation that one of her frequently hired vocalists, Gabriela Robin, is Kanno herself under a pseudonym.
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