Yoko Kanno

ComposerSoundActorWriterCrew Mar 18 (age 63) Sendai, Miyagi, Japan 1993–2023 (30 year career)

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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 Aq…

Known For

Film

SPY x FAMILY

Theme Song Performance

Film

Cowboy Bebop

Original Music Composer

Film

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie

Original Music Composer

Film

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

Original Music Composer

Film

Our Little Sister

Original Music Composer

Film

Terror in Resonance

Original Music Composer

Film

Memories

Original Music Composer

Film

Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade

Musician

Filmography

Acting (6)

Movies (6)

Maaya Sakamoto 15th Anniversary Live "Gift" at Nippon Budokan

2010

8.5

Macross Frontier Galaxy Tour Final in Budokan

2009

5.0

Ink Music: In the Land of the Hundred-Tongued Lyricist

2009

as Self

Memories of Memories

2004

as Self (archive)

6.0

Seatbelts: Souvenir of Tokyo

2001

Future Blues

2001

as Self

Crew (69)

Movies (40)

Sangokushi 30th Anniversary Concert

2017

Original Music Composer

Our Little Sister

2015

Original Music Composer

7.6

The World of Kanako

2014

Original Music Composer

6.5

Petal Dance

2013

Music

6.3

Ein's Summer Vacation

2012

Music

7.0

Cowboy Bebop: Don't Bother None

2012

Original Music Composer

6.1

Macross Frontier: The Wings of Farewell

2011

Original Music Composer

7.0

Surely Someday

2010

Music

5.8

Macross Frontier: The False Songstress

2009

Original Music Composer

6.9

Ring of Gundam

2009

Original Music Composer

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society

2007

Original Music Composer

7.5

Say Hello for Me

2007

Music

6.5

Genesis of Aquarion: Wings of Genesis

2007

Original Music Composer

4.4

Genius Party

2007

Original Music Composer

6.5

The Show Must Go On

2007

Original Music Composer

6.5

Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG - Individual Eleven

Music

Honey and Clover

Music

Su-ki-da

Music

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man

2005

Original Music Composer

7.7

Ashura

2005

Original Music Composer

5.1

A Melody for My Father

2005

Music

Kamikaze Girls

2004

Original Music Composer

7.1

Mind Game

2004

Musician

7.5

Turn A Gundam I: Earth Light

Music

tokyo.sora

Music

Turn A Gundam II: Moonlight Butterfly

2002

Music

6.0

Woman of Water

2002

Original Music Composer

6.0

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie

2001

Original Music Composer

7.7

Future Blues

2001

Music

Escaflowne: The Movie

2000

Original Music Composer

6.7

Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade

1999

Musician

7.4

Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade

1999

Theme Song Performance

Beautiful Sunday

Music

Happy-Go-Lucky

Music

Happy-Go-Lucky

Original Music Composer

7.5

Noiseman Sound Insect

1997

Original Music Composer

6.9

I Can’t Study

1996

Music

Macross Plus: The Movie

1995

Original Music Composer

7.1

Memories

1995

Original Music Composer

7.4

Memories Episode 1: Magnetic Rose

1995

Music

8.2

Television (29)

The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House

2023

Original Music Composer

7.6

SPY x FAMILY

2022

Theme Song Performance

8.5

Cowboy Bebop

2021

Original Music Composer

6.5

Naotora: The Lady Warlord

2017

Original Music Composer

8.3

Space Dandy

2014

Original Music Composer

7.5

Terror in Resonance

2014

Original Music Composer

Gochisousan

Music

Kids on the Slope

Music

Macross Frontier

Original Music Composer

7.8

Aoi Yū × Yottsu no Uso Camouflage

2008

Music

5.0

Darker than Black

2007

Original Music Composer

7.6

Ōban Star-Racers

2006

Original Music Composer

7.8

Ōban Star-Racers

2006

Theme Song Performance

Aquarion

Lyricist

Aquarion

Music

Aquarion

Theme Song Performance

6.5

Wolf's Rain

2003

Original Music Composer

7.8

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

2002

Original Music Composer

Macross Zero

Additional Music

Earth Maiden Arjuna

Music

Turn A Gundam

Original Music Composer

6.9

Cowboy Bebop

1998

Original Music Composer

8.5

Brain Powerd

1998

Original Music Composer

6.2

The Vision of Escaflowne

1996

Music

8.1

The Vision of Escaflowne

Musician

Macross 7

Additional Music

Yamato Takeru

Music

Macross Plus

Music

Please Save My Earth

Music