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Hirokazu Tanaka

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Hirokazu Tanaka (Japanese: 田中 宏和), nicknames "Hip Tanaka" and "Chip Tanaka", born December 13, 1957[1] is the president of Creatures, Inc. and a Nintendo music veteran; chip-sound/BGM composer, anime/general composer, engineer. Some works closely associated with him are the EarthBound series, Chee-Chai Alien, Pokémon series (anime), Metroid series, Fire Emblem series, Wars series, Super Mario Land, Balloon Kid, Kid Icarus, arcade games such as Donkey Kong (game), Space Firebird and Space X, Wrecking Crew, Gyromite and many more.

He has also worked for non-Nintendo products including those on Nintendo platforms.

On a more personal topic, Tanaka-san has released his own commercial albums as well; and was never restricted to Nintendo.

Nintendo related albums

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Trivia

  • Hirokazu Tanaka likes to use technical terms as themes, such as "Sporadic Vacuum" (the name of his personal homepage), probably for both (musical) expression, poetry, and inspiration.
  • He knows some English.


References

  1. Hirokazu Tanaka.com special thanks English Wikipedia
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