Kinuyo Yamashita (山下 絹代, Yamashita Kinuyo) is a Japanese video game music composer and sound producer born in Amagasaki, Hyōgo. After studying electronic engineering for two years at the junior college Osaka Electro-Communication University, she graduated in 1986 and went on to work for Konami.
She has composed music and sound effects for many video games. Her most famous soundtrack is Konami's Castlevania, which was also her first musical work. ...
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Kinuyo Yamashita (山下 絹代, Yamashita Kinuyo) is a Japanese video game music composer and sound producer born in Amagasaki, Hyōgo. After studying electronic engineering for two years at the junior college Osaka Electro-Communication University, she graduated in 1986 and went on to work for Konami.
She has composed music and sound effects for many video games. Her most famous soundtrack is Konami's Castlevania, which was also her first musical work. She was credited under the pseudonym James Banana for her work on the Famicom Disk System version of the game.
Yamashita started playing the piano at the age of four, taking lessons once per week. She learned the classical piano, where she played Chopin and Beethoven. As a child, her parents didn't listen to music, so she didn't have any musical influences.
After composing the soundtrack to Castlevania, Yamashita worked on many other games while with Konami, including Esper Dream, Arumana no Kiseki, Stinger, Maze of Galious, Knightmare III:...
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