alias_of:
  link: artist/319
  names:
    en: Yoko Kanno
    ja: 菅野よう子
birthdate: '1963-03-18'
birthplace: Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
discography:
- catalog: VICL-35297
  date: '2001-07-25'
  link: album/23515
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Sound Producer
  titles:
    en: Ask DNA / Seatbelts
    ja: Ask DNA / シートベルツ
    ja-latn: Ask DNA / Seatbelts
  type: anime
- catalog: VICL-60756
  date: '2001-08-29'
  link: album/36044
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Sound Producer
  titles:
    en: 'COWBOY BEBOP: Knockin'' on heaven''s door O.S.T. FUTURE BLUES'
    ja: 'COWBOY BEBOP: Knockin'' on heaven''s door O.S.T. FUTURE BLUES'
    ja-latn: 'COWBOY BEBOP: Knockin'' on heaven''s door O.S.T. FUTURE BLUES'
  type: anime
- catalog: VIZL-54
  date: '2001-08-29'
  link: album/23514
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Sound Producer
  titles:
    en: 'COWBOY BEBOP: Knockin'' on heaven''s door O.S.T. FUTURE BLUES [Limited Edition]'
    ja: 'COWBOY BEBOP: Knockin'' on heaven''s door O.S.T. FUTURE BLUES [Limited Edition]'
    ja-latn: 'COWBOY BEBOP: Knockin'' on heaven''s door O.S.T. FUTURE BLUES [Limited
      Edition]'
  type: anime
- catalog: VICL-60885
  date: '2002-05-22'
  link: album/23752
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Producer
  titles:
    en: 23-ji no Ongaku
    ja: 23時の音楽
    ja-latn: 23-ji no Ongaku
  type: live
- catalog: VTCL-60141~3
  date: '2009-05-27'
  link: album/21732
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Sound Producer
  titles:
    en: YOKO KANNO SEATBELTS Earth Tour Commemorative Collection Album Space Bio Charge
    ja: YOKO KANNO SEATBELTS 来地球記念コレクションアルバム スペースバイオチャージ
    ja-latn: YOKO KANNO SEATBELTS Raichikyuu Kinen Collection Album Space Bio Charge
  type: anime
- catalog: SRML-1037
  date: '2021-12-08'
  link: album/116242
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Producer
  titles:
    en: 'COWBOY BEBOP: Soundtrack From The Netflix Series - Extended'
    ja: 'COWBOY BEBOP: Soundtrack From The Netflix Series - Extended'
    ja-latn: 'COWBOY BEBOP: Soundtrack From The Netflix Series - Extended'
  type: live
- catalog: N/A
  date: 2022-12
  link: album/123105
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Producer
  titles:
    en: COWBOY BEBOP Soundtrack From The Netflix Series
    ja: COWBOY BEBOP Soundtrack From The Netflix Series
    ja-latn: COWBOY BEBOP Soundtrack From The Netflix Series
  type: live
featured_on: []
info:
  Birthdate: Mar 18, 1963
  Birthplace: Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
  Bloodtype: O
  Credited works: 7 albums in database
  Credits:
  - 4 sound producer
  - 3 producer
  Education: School of Letters, Arts and Sciences I, Waseda University (dropped out)
  Variations:
  - names:
      en: Y.K
link: artist/39660
meta:
  added_date: 2021-02-20T15:22
  edited_date: 2022-01-21T23:09
  fetched_date: 2026-01-11T08:17
  ttl: 86400
  visitors: 924
name: Y.K.
notes: 'Yoko Kanno is a classically trained composer and arranger for Japanese Media.
  Famous for Cowboy Bebop, Escaflowne, Ghost in the Shell and NHK Taiga Drama Ladylord
  Naotora. She writes music in various styles, from Jazz to 20th Century Film and
  Classical music, collaborating with many skilled artists, from singers to instrumentalists.
  In 1991 she composed for an art gallery show conducted by Fujishiro Seiji and entitled
  the Merchen Collection, composed of painted pictures of the world creation. In the
  90s she worked on various Koei Games and is one of the pioneers of orchestral video
  game music. In 1994 she recorded with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra for Macross
  Plus. In 1996 she recorded with the Members of the Czech Philharmonic and the Prague
  Philharmonic Choir for Magnetic Rose. In 1998 she worked with The Seatbelts on Cowboy
  Bebop. She had a longlasting collaboration with the Warsaw Philharmonic National
  Orchestra of Poland: Nobunaga''s Ambition, Turn A Gundam, Escaflowne, Ghost in the
  Shell, Brain Powerd, Song to Fly, Wolf''s Rain, Genesis of Aquarion and Macross
  Frontier. In 2013 she recorded with the Vienna Opera Ball Orchestra for the TV series
  Gochisousan. In 2017 she recorded with the NHK Symphony Orchestra for NHK Taiga
  Drama Ladylord Naotora. In 2019 she composed and conducted a symphonic piece for
  the new Emperor of Japan in the first year of Reiwa.'
picture_full: https://media.vgm.io/artists/91/319/319-1637026065.png
picture_small: https://thumb-media.vgm.io/artists/91/319/319-1637026065.png
sex: female
twitter_names:
- YokoKannoCH
type: Alias
vgmdb_link: https://vgmdb.net/artist/39660?perpage=99999
websites: {}
