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.
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
(Original Music Composer)
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man
(Original Music Composer)
Kamikaze Girls
(Original Music Composer)
Ashura
(Original Music Composer)
Genesis of Aquarion: Wings of Genesis
(Original Music Composer)
Macross Frontier: The False Songstress
(Original Music Composer)
Macross Frontier: The Wings of Farewell
(Original Music Composer)
Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG - Individual Eleven
(Music)
I Can’t Study
(Music)
Noiseman Sound Insect
(Original Music Composer)
Memories
(Original Music Composer)
Our Little Sister
(Original Music Composer)
Sangokushi 30th Anniversary Concert
(Original Music Composer)
Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade
(Musician)
Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade
(Theme Song Performance)
tokyo.sora
(Music)
Future Blues
(Music)
Macross Plus: The Movie
(Original Music Composer)
Escaflowne: The Movie
(Original Music Composer)
Mind Game
(Musician)
Turn A Gundam II: Moonlight Butterfly
(Music)
Honey and Clover
(Music)
Genius Party
(Original Music Composer)
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society
(Music)
Turn A Gundam I: Earth Light
(Music)
Su-ki-da
(Music)
Petal Dance
(Music)
Surely Someday
(Music)
Say Hello for Me
(Music)
Happy-Go-Lucky
(Music)
Cowboy Bebop: Don't Bother None
(Original Music Composer)
The World of Kanako
(Original Music Composer)
The Show Must Go On
(Original Music Composer)
Beautiful Sunday
(Music)
Ring of Gundam
(Original Music Composer)
Ein's Summer Vacation
(Music)
Woman of Water
(Original Music Composer)
Happy-Go-Lucky
(Original Music Composer)
A Melody for My Father
(Music)
Aoi Yū × Yottsu no Uso Camouflage
(Music)
Terror in Resonance
(Original Music Composer)
The Vision of Escaflowne
(Music)
Kids on the Slope
(Music)
Yamato Takeru
(Music)
Earth Maiden Arjuna
(Music)
Gochisousan
(Music)
Brain Powerd
(Original Music Composer)
The Vision of Escaflowne
(Musician)
Turn A Gundam
(Music)
Darker than Black
(Original Music Composer)
Macross Zero
(Additional Music)
Macross Plus
(Music)
Macross 7
(Additional Music)
Aquarion
(Music)
Please Save My Earth
(Music)
Cowboy Bebop
(Original Music Composer)
Cowboy Bebop
(Original Music Composer)
Aquarion
(Lyricist)
Aquarion
(Theme Song Performance)
Naotora: The Lady Warlord
(Original Music Composer)
Wolf's Rain
(Original Music Composer)
Macross Frontier
(Original Music Composer)
Space Dandy
(Original Music Composer)
The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House
(Original Music Composer)
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Original Music Composer)
SPY x FAMILY
(Theme Song Performance)
Ōban Star-Racers
(Theme Song Performance)
Turn A Gundam
(Original Music Composer)