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is a Japanese composer, arranger, and musician who is known for his numerous musical contributions in video games, anime series, television dramas, and solo progressive rock albums.〔(Motoi Sakuraba – Unofficial English web site )〕 ==Career== Sakuraba was born in Akita Prefecture, Japan. He is married to Yuko Sakuraba and has a daughter, Mio Sakuraba. While attending Meiji University, Sakuraba began to take music composition seriously, and eventually formed the progressive rock band "Clashed Ice" in 1984, consisting of him on keyboards and Genta Kudo on drums and vocals. After the duo had graduated the following year, they were noticed by music producer Shingo Ueno, and ending up signing with Made in Japan Records. The band had then added bassist Tetsuya Nagatsuma, and was renamed as "Deja Vu".〔〔http://www.team-e.co.jp/sakuraba/sakura_pro.html〕 In 1988, the band would release their only studio album, ''Baroque in the Future'', composed entirely by Sakuraba.〔 Although the band disbanded in 1989, Sakuraba would later go on to release a similar sounding solo album, ''Gikyokuonsou'', in 1991. In late 1989, Sakuraba began working as a composer for Wolf Team, joining Masaaki Uno and Yasunori Shiono. The professional friendships formed here in Sakuraba's early years have resulted in a great demand for his composing and arranging abilities. In 1994, former Wolf Team director and composer Masaaki Uno started working at Camelot Software Planning as a coordinator and sound director, developing games for Sony, Sega and Nintendo. Sakuraba has been called upon as a composer for many Camelot games, including all of the games in the ''Mario Golf'', ''Mario Tennis'', and ''Golden Sun'' series. In 1995, Wolf Team developed the breakthrough game ''Tales of Phantasia'' for Namco. This and other games in the Tales series primarily feature Sakuraba and fellow Wolf Team composer Shinji Tamura as composers (the main exceptions so far have been ''Tales of Legendia'' and ''Tales of Innocence'', composed by Go Shiina and Kazuhiro Nakamura respectively). Eventually the remnants of Wolf Team morphed into the Namco Telenet joint subsidiary Namco Tales Studio in 2003. Also in 1995, former Wolf Team director and producer Jun Asanuma, as well as ''Tales of Phantasia'' writer and programmer Yoshiharu Gotanda, founded tri-Ace with financial backing from Enix. The ''Star Ocean'' and ''Valkyrie Profile'' games have been their keystone productions. Sakuraba has been the composer for nearly all of their games, with only a few exceptions. In 1999, long time Sakuraba sound designer and programmer Hiroya Hatsushiba, a former member of Wolf Team and tri-Ace, founded tri-Crescendo. While initially continuing to contribute sound work to tri-Ace games, tri-Crescendo began game development in 2001. Together with Monolith Soft, tri-Crescendo started working on ''Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean''; Namco provided the financial backing. Hatsushiba, as director and main programmer of the project, again called upon Sakuraba's composing services. This has extended to the sequel (''Baten Kaitos Origins'') and ''Eternal Sonata''. In 2007, Sakuraba was selected to join a long list of video game composers to arrange music for ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl''. He chose to arrange the famous "Menu Theme" from the game's predecessor, ''Super Smash Bros. Melee''. He also arranged "Gourmet Race" from ''Kirby Super Star'', "Jungle Level Ver.2" from ''Donkey Kong Country'', "Mario Tennis / Mario Golf" from ''Mario Tennis and Mario Golf'', "Victory Road" from ''Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire'', the "Airship Theme" from ''Super Mario Bros. 3'', the "Battlefield Theme", "Final Destination", and "Battle Scene / Final Boss (Golden Sun)" from ''Golden Sun: The Lost Age''. In more recent years, Sakuraba has continued to write music for games in franchises he has experience in, such as ''Star Ocean: The Last Hope'', ''Golden Sun: Dark Dawn'', ''Mario Tennis Open'', ''Mario Golf: World Tour'', and many ''Tales of'' games including ''Hearts'', ''Graces'', ''Xillia'', ''Xillia 2'', and ''Zestiria''. He has also contributed to other well known games such as ''Dark Souls'', ''Dark Souls II'', ''Kid Icarus: Uprising'', and ''Phantasy Star Nova''. In 2014, he was again selected to provide musical arrangements for Brawl's successor, ''Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.smashbros.com/us/music/ )〕 For this title, Sakuraba arranged "Theme from Area 6 / Missile Slipstream" from ''Star Fox 64'' and ''Star Fox Command'', "Battle! (Team Flare)" from ''Pokémon X and Y'', and "The valedictory elegy" from ''Baten Kaitos Origins''. In addition to all this, Sakuraba has continued to create solo albums, such as ''Forest of glass'', ''What's up?'', and ''Passage'', as well as lending his arrangement and performance abilities for many doujin styled arrange albums, amongst other works. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Motoi Sakuraba」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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