Yoko Kanno Biography, Age, Family, Education, Net Worth, Movies & More

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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.

Yoko Kanno

Yoko Kanno Biography / Wiki

NameYoko Kanno
Also KnowGabriella Robin, Yôko Kanno, 菅野 よう子, Yōko Kanno, Youko Kanno, Yohko Kanno, かんの ようこ, Gabriela Robin
GenderFemale
Known ForSound
Place of BirthSendai, Miyagi, Japan
Date of BirthMarch 18, 1963
Age(as in 2023 Feb)60
Deathday

Yoko Kanno Acting Movies

Movie NameCharacterRelease DateOverview
Seatbelts: Souvenir of Tokyo2001-01-01The Seatbelts is a Japanese blues/jazz band led by composer and instrumentalist Yoko Kanno. The band performed the whole soundtrack of the anime seri…
Future BluesSelf2001-11-07Short film and live concert “Future Blues” by Katsu Nagaishi with music by Yoko Kanno and The Seatbelts. First part of the DVD contains the live actio…
Ink Music: In the Land of the Hundred-Tongued LyricistSelf2009-06-18Everyone in Japan knows his work, yet few recognize his face. Chris Mosdell, British expatriate, pop lyricist, poet and visual artist, during his 30-y…
Macross Frontier Galaxy Tour Final in Budokan2009-11-27In November 2008, a live concert of Macross Frontier’s music was performed by May’n, Megumi Nakajima, and Yoko Kanno….
Maaya Sakamoto 15th Anniversary Live “Gift” at Nippon Budokan2010-08-11For her 15th debut anniversary and birthday, Sakamoto Maaya made an amazing concert in Budokan (Tokyo) with a selection of all her best songs! In spec…
Memories of MemoriesSelf (archive)2004-02-24Memories (1995) making-of featurette, includes introductions to the creative genius behind the shows and looks at Otomo’s previous works, such as Ak…

Writing

Movie NameJobRelease DateOverview
LyricistSet in the future, a giant fighting machine called the Aquarion is humanity’s only effective weapon in the fight against the technologically advanced …

Sound

Movie NameJobRelease DateOverview
Cowboy Bebop: The MovieOriginal Music Composer2001-09-01The year is 2071. Following a terrorist bombing, a deadly virus is released on the populace of Mars and the government has issued the largest bounty i…
Kamikaze GirlsOriginal Music Composer2004-05-29Momoko is an ordinary girl, living an ordinary life. Ordinary, that is, if you define ordinary as wearing elaborate lolita dresses from the Rococo per…
AshuraOriginal Music Composer2005-04-16Adapted from the successful play, the film takes place in 19th-century Japan, where a war between demons and their slayers is fought. Izumo, a kabuki…
Tokyo.SoraMusic2002-10-26Six women attempt to make it in current day Tokyo, living their everyday lives the best and worst they can. For them, every little moment becomes a ri…
Macross Frontier: The False SongstressOriginal Music Composer2009-11-21Half retelling of the original Frontier series, half new story. Conspiracies arise within the Frontier government when Sheryl Nome arrives to the colo…
Macross Frontier: The Wings of FarewellOriginal Music Composer2011-02-26Picking up from where the previous movie left off, Ranka’s star career flourishes while Sheryl’s health rapidly deteriorates after collapsing during a…
Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG – Individual ElevenMusic2006-01-27The year is 2030. Six months passed since the Laughing Man Incident was solved. About 3 million refugees are living in Japan, invited to fill the labo…
Our Little SisterOriginal Music Composer2015-06-13A story that revolves around three sisters who live in their grandmother’s home and the arrival of their 13-year-old half sister….
Future BluesMusic2001-11-07Short film and live concert “Future Blues” by Katsu Nagaishi with music by Yoko Kanno and The Seatbelts. First part of the DVD contains the live actio…
Macross Plus: The MovieOriginal Music Composer1995-10-06Three decades after the great war between the humans and the Zentradi, the U.N. government is developing new technologies to use in their transforming…
Mind GameMusician2004-08-07The film follows Nishi, a loser who has a crush on his childhood girlfriend. After an encounter with the Japanese mafia, the film follows Nishi as he …
Turn A Gundam I: Earth LightMusic2002-02-09Loran Cehack is a spy sent from the moon to scout out Earth, whom they plan to invade. He grows to love Earth as his true home and, after discovering …
Petal DanceMusic2013-04-19Long-time friends Jinko and Motoko hear that their college friend Miki has jumped into the ocean. They are joined by Haraki, who Jinko happens to meet…
Please Save My EarthMusic1993-12-17Alice is a Japanese schoolgirl who has never thought much about the past… that is, until her classmates, Jinpachi and Issei, tell her that they’ve b…
Su-ki-daMusic2006-02-25Two youths meet in adolescence, reconnect as adults, and though both have changed drastically, their love still remains….
Surely SomedayMusic2010-07-17Drawing influence from the street musicians of Miyagi, four high school students form a band and spend their free time practicing for their school’s u…
Genius PartyOriginal Music Composer2007-07-07The seven short films making up GENIUS PARTY couldn’t be more diverse, linked only by a high standard of quality and inspiration. Atsuko Fukushima 
Turn A Gundam II: Moonlight ButterflyMusic2002-02-10Following the events of the first movie, the Militia finishes restoration work on its excavated spaceship and travels to the moon to deal with Gym Ghi…
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex – Solid State SocietyMusic2006-09-01The story takes place in the year 2034, two years after the events in Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG. Female cyborg Major Motoko Kusanagi has left…
Happy Go LuckyMusic1997-03-17Takashi and four of his classmates, fourth-grade students, cannot succeed in doing a back pullover around a horizontal bar. Their gym teacher warns th…
Say Hello for MeMusic2007-06-02“Say Hello for Me” is a love story and talks about three people’s childhood friendship and their reunion after 15 years of separation….
Woman of WaterMusic2002-11-09Ryo personifies water, since whenever something important happens in her life, it rains. She inherits a bathhouse and meets a pyromaniac named Yusaku….
Honey and CloverMusic2006-07-22Adapted from the popular manga of the same name, director Masahiro Takada’s coming of age drama follows five Hama Art College students as they prepare…
Cowboy Bebop: Don’t Bother NoneOriginal Music Composer2012-12-12When three bounty hunters accidentally meet in a bar, their stark personalities begin to clash, turning into a three way gun fight….
The World of KanakoOriginal Music Composer2014-07-04When Kanako, a model daughter and a brilliant student, disappears, her mother asks her ex-husband, a violent former policeman, to find her. As his inv…
The Show Must Go OnOriginal Music Composer2007-04-05A middle-aged gangster’s lifetime of mistakes catch up with him as his personal and professional life is destroyed….
Beautiful SundayMusic1998-11-20A droll and formalistic comic drama about the various relationships among, and odd obsessions of, the residents of a Tokyo apartment block….
Ring of GundamOriginal Music Composer2009-08-29The story of “Ring of Gundam” takes place in a new era long after the events of the first Mobile Suit Gundam series’ One-Year War. In this world setti…
Genesis of Aquarion: Wings of GenesisOriginal Music Composer2007-09-21This movie is an alternative version of the TV series; it is composed of the two 2007 OVAs, edited to improve the pacing of the plot, and an extra seg…
Noiseman Sound InsectOriginal Music Composer1997-11-22The film is set in the distant future in a city called Cahmpon. A scientist creates a synthetic life-form called Noiseman, which erases music from the…
MemoriesOriginal Music Composer1995-12-23In this anime anthology, a salvage ship crew happens upon a haunted vessel in “Magnetic Rose”; a cold tablet turns a lab worker into a biological weap…
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex – The Laughing ManOriginal Music Composer2005-09-23The year is 2030 and six years have passed since a criminal known only as “The Laughing Man” swept through top medical nanotechnology firms committing…
Boku wa benkyo ga dekinaiMusic1996-06-08Hidemi is bored of school, and decides to find another way to succeed in life….
Sangokushi 30th Anniversary ConcertOriginal Music Composer2017-02-16To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the “Sangokushi” series, a concert was held at MUZA Kawasaki Symphony Hall on Saturday, April 16, 2016. The Kanag…
Jin-Roh: The Wolf BrigadeTheme Song Performance1999-11-17A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the suicide bombing of a young girl and is forced to und…
Jin-Roh: The Wolf BrigadeMusician1999-11-17A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the suicide bombing of a young girl and is forced to und…
Escaflowne: The MovieOriginal Music Composer2000-06-24Gaea is a mythical realm ruled by sword and sorcery and immersed in blood and violence. Thrust into a conflict she doesn’t quite understand, Hitomi Ka…
MusicThe series consists of four 3-episode chapters, each handled by a different director. The directors were given freedom in their stories, but they all …
Original Music ComposerIn an alternate version of the present, Tokyo has been decimated by a shocking terrorist attack, and the only hint to the identity of the culprit is a…
Original Music ComposerTen years ago, a mysterious spatial anomaly now known as “Heaven’s Gate” appeared in South America, shortly followed by the opening of “Hell’s Gate” i…
MusicIt is the Correct Century, two millenniums after a devastating conflict which left the world broken. Earth is now mostly uninhabitable, and thus a rem…
MusicIn the 25th century, a spaceship carrying 300 people leaves the earth in search of a new world in the solar system, but an unexpected accident occurs….
MusicThe year is 2040 and the galaxy is flourishing with several colonies and advanced technology. AI is near perfection and the current top idol is the ne…
MusicHigh school student Hitomi is transported from Earth to the magical world of Gaea, where she meets boy prince Van Fanel, and is caught up in his quest…
MusicianHigh school student Hitomi is transported from Earth to the magical world of Gaea, where she meets boy prince Van Fanel, and is caught up in his quest…
MusicArjuna is a Japanese animated television series created by Shoji Kawamori. The series follows Juna Ariyoshi, a high school girl chosen to be the “Avat…
MusicUno Meiko is the daughter of parents who run a western style restaurant in Tokyo. She marries and moves to Osaka with her husband. Meiko experiences c…
MusicTwo different students – a successful but aloof academic and a rebellious but kindhearted delinquent – form a friendship through their love for music….
Original Music ComposerIn a future, decimated Earth after the discovery of a mysterious, alien spacecraft dubbed “Orphan”. A group of researchers scour the planet for Orphan…
MusicSet in the future, a giant fighting machine called the Aquarion is humanity’s only effective weapon in the fight against the technologically advanced …
Music
Original Music ComposerLong on style and perpetually short on cash, bounty hunters Spike, Jet and Faye trawl the solar system looking for jobs. But can they outrun Spike’s p…
Original Music ComposerIn 2071, roughly fifty years after an accident with a hyperspace gateway made the Earth almost uninhabitable, humanity has colonized most of the rocky…
Theme Song PerformanceSet in the future, a giant fighting machine called the Aquarion is humanity’s only effective weapon in the fight against the technologically advanced …
Original Music ComposerNaotora Ii is a woman given a male name, who succeeded as the head of the Ii family during the Warring States period when her father passed away. With…
Original Music ComposerParadise—a legend, a myth, and a hopeless dream in a world that has become a wasteland. It is not meant for everyone, only the wolves thought to be …
Original Music ComposerA human space colony fleet is trying to find a habitable planet near the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. The story focuses on three young adults and t…
Original Music ComposerSpace Dandy is a dandy in space! This dreamy adventurer with a to-die-for pompadour travels across the galaxy in search of aliens no one has ever laid…
Original Music ComposerTwo inseparable friends move to Kyoto to chase their dreams of becoming maiko, but decide to pursue different passions while living under the same roo…
Original Music ComposerIn the future when technological enhancements and robotics are a way of life, Major Motoko Kusanagi and Section 9 take care of the jobs that are too d…

Other Info

Movie NameJobRelease DateOverview
Additional Music35 years have passed since Lynn Minmay had brought peace between the Zentradi and the humans. Nekki Basara is a guitarist and a singer of the band Fir…
Additional MusicTaking place one year before the events of the original Macross series, Macross Zero chronicles the final days of the war between the U.N. Spacy and a…

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