Motoi Sakuraba is a Japanese composer and keyboardist.
11 Facts About Motoi Sakuraba
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Motoi Sakuraba is known for his numerous contributions in video games, including the Tales, Star Ocean, Mario Golf, Mario Tennis, Golden Sun, and Dark Souls series, as well as several other anime series, television dramas, and progressive rock albums.
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In late 1989, Motoi Sakuraba began working as a composer for Wolf Team, joining Masaaki Uno and Yasunori Shiono.
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Motoi 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.
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Motoi Sakuraba has been the composer for nearly all of their games.
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In 2007, Motoi Sakuraba was selected to join a long list of video game composers to arrange music for Super Smash Bros.
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Motoi Sakuraba chose to arrange the famous "Menu Theme" from the game's predecessor, Super Smash Bros.
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Motoi Sakuraba then continued to write music for games in franchises he has worked with before, including Star Ocean: The Last Hope, Golden Sun: Dark Dawn, Mario Tennis Open, Mario Golf: World Tour, and many Tales series games, including Hearts, Graces, Xillia, Xillia 2, Zestiria, and Berseria.
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Motoi Sakuraba has contributed to other well known games such as the Dark Souls series, Kid Icarus: Uprising, and Phantasy Star Nova.
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Motoi Sakuraba performed progressive rock interpretations of his music from games Star Ocean: Till the End of Time, Star Ocean: The Second Story, Star Ocean: Blue Sphere and Valkyrie Profile.
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In June 2015, Motoi Sakuraba performed at the Tales of Festival at the Yokohama Arena, being the first time he performed tracks from the Tales series at a live event.