Nobuo Uematsu

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Nobuo Uematsu 2011 in Cologne

Nobuo Uematsu ( Japanese 植 松 伸 夫 Uematsu Nobuo ; born March 21, 1959 in Kōchi , Kōchi Prefecture ) is a Japanese composer and musician who composes music for video and computer games and sometimes for films .

biography

After graduating from high school, Uematsu graduated from Kanagawa University . By the time Uematsu turned 22, he joined many amateur bands as a keyboard player, but soon found that writing music was more to him than playing. Therefore, he started a career as a composer and sent demo tapes to many companies. Eventually he got hired and wrote music for Radio CM.

In 1985 , Uematsu was asked by a friend who worked for the video game company Square if he would like to write music for some video games. So Uematsu began to write soundtracks, including for almost all games in the well-known Final Fantasy series by Square / Square Enix . In these he also worked with other artists. In November 2004 he left Square Enix to work as a freelance composer. His company is called Smile Please.

Nobuo Uematsu's music has been performed in numerous concerts, for example in the Game Music Concert series in Japan from 1991; 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2007 as part of the game music concerts in Leipzig (game music concert ), as well as in the concert 20020220 Music From Final Fantasy or the Tour de Japon 2004. The Dear Friends concert in 2004 in Los Angeles was the first Final Fantasy Concert outside of Japan. In 2005 a Dear Friends tour began through the USA, stations were among others Chicago and San Francisco. In addition, Nobuo Uematsu takes to the stage in person when his band The Black Mages plays rock arrangements of final fantasy titles.

Nobuo Uematsu currently lives in Japan with his wife Reiko.

Video game soundtracks

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Albums
Final Fantasy VII Remake and Final Fantasy VII (Music by Nobuo Uematsu)
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Soundtracks based on Nobuo Uematsu's works

Other works

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chris Kohler: An Evening with Uematsu, Final Fantasy's Music Man. Game | Life, wired.com, July 21, 2009, English

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Uematsu, Nobuo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 植 松 伸 夫 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese musician
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Kochi