11 Facts About Toru Minegishi

Toru Minegishi is a Japanese video game composer known for his work on Nintendo games, most notably in The Legend of Zelda and Splatoon series.

Toru Minegishi was raised in a musical family and developed an interest in video games and their music from an early age.

Toru Minegishi grew up in a musical family; his parents were especially fond of Latin and tango music.

Toru Minegishi became interested in video games at the age of ten after he saw a commercial for The Legend of Zelda.

The suite's composition technique, which focused on matching music to visuals, had a big influence on Toru Minegishi, and furthered his interest in video game music.

Unlike other composers and professional musicians, he received no special musical education, and took no piano lessons when he was young; instead, Toru Minegishi became interested in music by himself.

Toru Minegishi was percussionist of a school band in junior high, and later played drums in a band he had formed with his friends at college.

Toru Minegishi kept pursuing his dream of becoming a video game sound designer and applied at Nintendo.

Toru Minegishi often listens to music at home to make himself familiar with a variety of musical styles.

Toru Minegishi prefers to create melodies in his head, but composes on the keyboard and the guitar as well.

Toru Minegishi considers video game composer Koji Kondo, the manager of the EAD sound group, as big inspiration and a master of video game sound.