Laura Shigihara

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Laura Shigihara is a computer game music composer and singer-songwriter .

She has composed pieces of music for over 25 computer games, and gained public fame as the main composer and sound designer for the tower defense computer game Plants versus Zombies . She is half Japanese and in addition to the English version of the song Zombies on Your Lawn , she also sang the Japanese version of the song Uraniwa ni Zombies ga for the game. Shigihara also recorded vocals for the singing Sunflower pet in World of Warcraft : Cataclysm. She can also be heard in Akira Yamaoka's album Play For Japan , alongside other composers such as Nobuo Uematsu and Yasunori Mitsuda .

biography

Shigihara's father is of Japanese descent and her mother is French-American. Shigihara grew up in the United States and Japan. She practiced the piano for 11 years and taught herself to play guitar and drums. She composed her own computer game music and recorded her own songs. After a friend gave her works to record labels in Japan, Shigihara was offered record deals, which she declined for personal reasons.

Shortly after she returned to the United States, Shigihara took a job as a sound director at a company that produces audio talk shows and English learning materials through Apple Japan. She has also released a studio album and composed her first computer game soundtrack for a small casual game called Wobbly Bobbly . She was so excited to be working on a computer game that she offered her work for free. The company liked their job and paid them to create music for the following projects. From then on, she built her portfolio and has since worked on over 25 published titles, including Plants versus Zombies , Ghost Harvest , World of Warcraft , Minecraft and To the Moon . In her spare time, she also developed a music-based role-playing game called Melolune and is on Akira Yamaoka's iTunes album Play for Japan , where she contributed a song of her own called Jump . On April 15, 2012 her single "Cube Land" was released. In May 2017, the computer game Rakuen she developed was published.

Discography

  • My Blue Dream (2004)
  • Melolune: The Original Soundtrack Part 1 (2010)
  • Blood Elf Druids (2010)
  • Plants vs. Zombies: The Soundtrack (2010)
  • Celestial Beings (2011)
  • Cube Land (2011)
  • To The Moon (2011)
  • From the Ground Up (2012)
  • Wish my life away (2017)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Laura Shigihara - “Jump”. (No longer available online.) In: Play For Japan - A Game Industry Relief Effort. Archived from the original on April 13, 2013 ; accessed on January 12, 2013 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / playforjapan.org
  2. ↑ a b Laura Shigihara: VGM. In: mybluedream. Retrieved January 12, 2013 .
  3. ↑ a b Laura Shigihara: “Uraniwa ni Zombies ga!” lyrics. In: mybluedream. Retrieved January 12, 2013 .
  4. ^ Mathew McCurley: Singing Sunflower companion pet voiced by Laura Shigihara. (No longer available online.) In: WoW Insider. September 20, 2010, archived from the original on December 19, 2012 ; accessed on January 12, 2013 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / wow.joystiq.com
  5. ↑ Jeriaska: Interview: Yamaoka, Shigihara, And Jackson Play For Japan. In: Gamasutra. July 5, 2011, accessed January 12, 2013 .
  6. ↑ D. Yvette Wohn: Interview with Laura Shigihara- Composer for Plants vs. Zombies. (No longer available online.) In: Play as Life. May 4, 2009, archived from the original on July 21, 2012 ; accessed on January 12, 2013 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / playaslife.com
  7. ↑ a b Lisa Poisso: 15 Minutes of Fame: Laura Shigihara, voice of WoW's Singing Sunflower. (No longer available online.) In: WoW Insider. November 10, 2010, archived from the original on January 5, 2013 ; accessed on January 12, 2013 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / wow.joystiq.com
  8. ↑ Music: Melolune Original Soundtrack Part One (Laura Shigihara). In: IndieGames.com. October 13, 2010, accessed January 12, 2013 .
  9. ↑ "Cube Land" - A Minecraft Music Video - An Original Song by Laura Shigihara (PvZ Composer). (Online video) In: YouTube. April 15, 2012, accessed January 12, 2013 .
  10. ↑ Rakuen. In: Steam .
personal data
SURNAME Shigihara, Laura
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Singer and Songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century