Yoko Kanno is a Japanese composer, arranger and music producer of soundtracks for anime series, video games, television dramas and movies. She has written scores for Cowboy Bebop, Terror in Resonance, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Wolf's Rain, Turn A Gundam and Darker than Black. Kanno is a keyboardist and the frontwoman for Seatbelts, who perform many of her compositions.
Kanno at Anime Expo 2010
Kanno at Otakon 1999
Yoko Kanno (left) with Megumi Nakajima performing at Anime Expo 2010
Cowboy Bebop is a Japanese neo-noir space Western anime television series which aired on TV Tokyo and Wowow from 1998 to 1999. It was created and animated by Sunrise, led by a production team of director Shinichirō Watanabe, screenwriter Keiko Nobumoto, character designer Toshihiro Kawamoto, mechanical designer Kimitoshi Yamane, and composer Yoko Kanno, who are collectively billed as Hajime Yatate.
Key visual of the series, featuring the entire Bebop crew
Main cast from left to right: Jet Black, Spike Spiegel, Faye Valentine, Edward, and Ein
Series director Shinichirō Watanabe at the 2009 Japan Expo
Series composer Yoko Kanno in 1999