Yoko Kanno

Personal Info

Known For Sound

Gender Female

Birthday 1963-03-18 (61 years old)

Place of Birth Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

Also Known As Gabriella Robin, Yôko Kanno, 菅野 よう子, Yōko Kanno, Youko Kanno, Yohko Kanno, かんの ようこ, Gabriela Robin

Yoko Kanno

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 Aquarion and Terror in Resonance, and has worked with the directors Hirokazu Kore-eda, Yoshiyuki Tomino, Shinichirō Watanabe and Shōji Kawamori. Kanno has also composed music for pop artists Maaya Sakamoto and Kyōko Koizumi. She is also a keyboardist, and is the frontwoman for the Seatbelts, who perform many of Kanno's compositions and soundtracks.

Known For

Sound

2023
The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House

as Original Music Composer

2022
SPY x FAMILY

as Theme Song Performance

2021
Cowboy Bebop

as Original Music Composer

2017
Sangokushi 30th Anniversary Concert

as Original Music Composer

2017
Naotora: The Lady Warlord

as Original Music Composer

2015
Our Little Sister

as Original Music Composer

2014
The World of Kanako

as Original Music Composer

2014
Terror in Resonance

as Original Music Composer

2014
Space Dandy

as Original Music Composer

2013
Petal Dance

as Music

2013
Gochisousan

as Music

2012
Cowboy Bebop: Don't Bother None

as Original Music Composer

2012
2011
Macross Frontier: The Wings of Farewell

as Original Music Composer

2010
2009
Macross Frontier: The False Songstress

as Original Music Composer

2009
Ring of Gundam

as Original Music Composer

2008
Macross Frontier

as Original Music Composer

2007
Genesis of Aquarion: Wings of Genesis

as Original Music Composer

2007
Genius Party

as Original Music Composer

2007
2007
Baby Blue

as Original Music Composer

2007
The Show Must Go On

as Original Music Composer

2007
Darker than Black

as Original Music Composer

2006
2006
Su-ki-da

as Music

2006
Ōban Star-Racers

as Original Music Composer

2006
Ōban Star-Racers

as Theme Song Performance

2005
Ashura

as Original Music Composer

2005
Aquarion

as Music

2005
Aquarion

as Theme Song Performance

2004
Kamikaze Girls

as Original Music Composer

2004
Mind Game

as Musician

2003
Wolf's Rain

as Original Music Composer

2002
Tokyo.Sora

as Music

2002
2002
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

as Original Music Composer

2001
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie

as Original Music Composer

2001
Future Blues

as Music

2001
2000
Escaflowne: The Movie

as Original Music Composer

1999
Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade

as Theme Song Performance

1999
Turn A Gundam

as Music

1999
Turn A Gundam

as Original Music Composer

1998
1998
Brain Powerd

as Original Music Composer

1998
Cowboy Bebop

as Original Music Composer

1997
Noiseman Sound Insect

as Original Music Composer

1997
1996
1995
Memories

as Original Music Composer

1995
Macross Plus: The Movie

as Original Music Composer

1994
Macross Plus

as Music

1994
Yamato Takeru

as Music

Crew

2002
Macross Zero

as Additional Music

1994
Macross 7

as Additional Music

Writer

2005
Aquarion

as Lyricist