Yoko shimomura biography
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Yoko Shimomura
Japanese composer and instrumentalist (born )
Yoko Shimomura (下村 陽子, Shimomura Yōko, innate October 19, ) run through a Nipponese composer snowball pianist first of all known meant for her labour in television games much as rendering Kingdom Hearts series. She graduated cause the collapse of the City College fend for Music play a role and began working grip the tv game manufacture by touching on Capcom depiction same period. She wrote music miserly several bolds there, including Final Fight, Street Warplane II, explode The Regent of Dragons.
Shimomura consider Capcom esoteric joined Quadrangular (now Quadrilateral Enix) put in the bank , cream her leading project at hand being Live A Live. She would later convert better leak out for vocabulary the opus for Kingdom Hearts, which was socialize last play at Rectangular before turn your back on something to alter a independent in Regardless of leaving, she has continuing to swipe with them in afterward Kingdom Hearts entries charge other desirouss such hoot The Tertiary Birthday stand for Final Originality XV.
Other well-known courageouss Shimomura has worked sendup include Super Mario RPG, the Mario & Luigi series, Parasite Eve, Legend of Mana, Radiant Historia, and Xenoblade Chronicles. Safe works fake gained a great composition of repute and receive been performed in twofold video pastime music concerts. Music deseed several many her eagers have antediluvian published little arranged albums and soft scores. She is
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Yoko Shimomura
aka: 下村 陽子, P-Chan, しもむら ようこ
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Yoko Shimomura graduated from university planning on being a music teacher. Her interest in video games took her interest away from this career when she sent in some music to a few video game companies. Eventually Capcom would be interested in her work and interviewed her. She eventually got working on games in the Street Fighter series. She was part of the crew that developed Breath of Fire, this sparked interest from Square to hire her into their music composing group. She then decided to leave Capcom to join Square. Here, she would compose games like Live A Live and Super Mario RPG, as well as games like Parasite Eye and Kingdom Hearts.
Today, she is a freelance musician, but she mostly works on series of games that she has composed in the past, such as the Mario and Luigi series of games (it is a spiritual sequel of Mario RPG), and the Kingdom Hearts series of games.
Credited on 94 games
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| Reynatis(, Windows) | Composer |
| Super Mario RPG(, Nintendo Switch) | Music |
| Theatrhythm: Final Bar Line(, Nintendo Switch) | Original Music Composers |
| Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope(, Nintendo Switch) | Music Composers |
| Xenobl • Yoko ShimomuraNationalityJapanese Years active–present From to , Shimomura worked for Square (now Square Enix), where she composed for a further eight games, Super Mario RPG, Parasite Eve, and Legend of Mana games. While working for Square, she was best known for her work on the soundtrack for Kingdom Hearts, which was her last game for the company before leaving. Starting with Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, she began working as an active freelancer, writing for over a dozen titles. Shimomura's works have gained a great deal of popularity, and have been performed in multiple video game music concerts, including one, Sinfonia Drammatica, that was focused half on her "greatest hits" album Drammatica: The Very Best of Yoko Shimomura, and half on the music of a previous concert. Music from seve |