Kazumi Totaka
Kazumi Totaka ( Japanese 戸 高 一生 , Totaka Kazumi ; also known as Totakeke ( と た か け ); born August 23, 1967 in Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese video game composer , voice actor and game developer .
Act
At the age of 24, Totaka was employed as a composer by the Japanese video game and game console manufacturer Nintendo in 1991 and assigned to the Nintendo Research & Development 1 department. The first game with his participation was X , released in 1992 . In the following years Totaka composed the soundtracks for Super Mario Land 2 - Six Golden Coins and The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, among other things . In 1995 he moved to the Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development studio as a composer , where he has been composing for series such as Animal Crossing and Wii Sports since then .
In addition, Totaka acts as a voice actor at Nintendo. Among other things, he lends the voice of the character Yoshi . For Luigi's Mansion and its successor , Totaka dubbed the character Professor I. Gidd.
Totaka made his debut as a video game director with Wii Music , a music simulation launched in 2008.
In the Animal Crossing games there is the character KK Slider, which is based on Totaka. The composer is also known for a short piece of 19 notes, called Totaka's Song, which is hidden in almost all of the games Totaka composed.
Works
- F1 Race (Game Boy, 1990)
- X (Game Boy, 1992) - composer (with Hirokazu Tanaka )
- Super Mario Land 2 - Six Golden Coins (Game Boy, 1992) - composer
- Mario Paint (SNES, 1992) - composer (with others)
- Kaeru no tame ni Kane wa Naru (Game Boy, 1992) - composer
- The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Game Boy, 1993) - Composer (with others)
- Tetris & Dr. Mario (SNES, 1994) - composer (with others)
- Virtual Boy Wario Land ( Virtual Boy , 1995) - composer
- Wave Race 64 (N64, 1996) - composer
- Yoshi's Story (N64, 1997) - composer
- Luigi's Mansion (GameCube, 2001) - composer (with Shinobu Tanaka)
- Animal Crossing (GameCube, 2001) - sound director
- Pikmin 2 (GameCube, 2004) - sound director
- Yoshi Touch & Go (DS, 2005) - sound director
- Animal Crossing: Wild World (DS, 2005) - sound director
- Yoshi's Island DS (DS, 2006) - Sound Supervisor
- Wii Sports (Wii, 2006) - Sound Director
- Wii Play (Wii, 2007) - Sound Advisor
- Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii, 2008) - Composer (with others)
- Wii Music (Wii, 2008) - Director
- Animal Crossing: City Folk (Wii, 2008) - Sound Director
- Animal Crossing: New Leaf (3DS, 2012) - Sound Director
- Luigi's Mansion 2 (3DS, 2013) - Sound Supervisor (with others)
- Wii Sports Club (Wii U, 2013) - composer
- Mario Kart 8 (Wii U, 2014) - Sound Director
Web links
- Kazumi Totaka at MobyGames
- Nintendo Life: Profile: Kazumi Totaka - The Man Behind Animal Crossing's KK Slider
- Nintendo-Online: Inside Nintendo 29: Two special Nintendo composers
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/Kazumi-Totaka/
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Totaka, Kazumi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 戸 高 一生 (Japanese); Totakeke (nickname); と た か け (Japanese, nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese video game composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 23rd August 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tokyo prefecture |