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Akira Yamaoka

1968 - Today

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Akira Yamaoka (山岡 晃, Yamaoka Akira; born February 6, 1968) is a Japanese composer, musician, producer, and sound designer who composed for Konami's Silent Hill video game series from 1999 to 2009, and 2024 onwards. He also produced many of its installments, and composed for its three film adaptations. Yamaoka worked with Konami from 1993 to 2009. He has been the sound director at Grasshopper Manufacture since 2010. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Akira Yamaoka is the 1,222nd most popular composer (down from 1,202nd in 2019), the 1,412th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,307th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Japanese Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Akira Yamaoka ranks 1,222 out of 1,451. Before him are Cláudio Santoro, Jean-Joseph Mouret, Abdylas Maldybaev, Glenn Branca, Leonard Slatkin, and Adolph Deutsch. After him are Bronius Kutavičius, Luís de Freitas Branco, Frank Churchill, David Diamond, Tadeusz Baird, and Andrei Eshpai.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Akira Yamaoka ranks 228. Before him are Navid Negahban, Hedi Slimane, Marie-José Pérec, Irina Privalova, Ľuboš Micheľ, and Carlos Latuff. After him are Tisha Campbell-Martin, Jaye Davidson, Mami Kaneda, Edward Burns, Parker Posey, and David Ayer.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Akira Yamaoka ranks 1,412 out of 6,245. Before him are Megumi Ogata (1965), Tetsuo Hamuro (1917), Yoko Taro (1970), Katsutoshi Naito (1895), Takashi Kageyama (1977), and Kazuo Hasegawa (1908). After him are Princess Tomohito of Mikasa (1955), Takao Kawaguchi (1950), Masaji Kiyokawa (1913), Tomohide Nakazawa (1980), Chiaki Yamada (1966), and Toshikatsu Matsuoka (1945).

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Among COMPOSERS In Japan

Among composers born in Japan, Akira Yamaoka ranks 16. Before him are Kenji Kawai (1957), Akira Ifukube (1914), Koji Kondo (1961), Yasushi Akutagawa (1925), Fumio Hayasaka (1914), and Shirō Sagisu (1957). After him are Masaaki Suzuki (1954), Toshio Hosokawa (1955), Hiroyuki Sawano (1980), Junichi Masuda (1968), Kaoru Wada (1962), and Yuzo Koshiro (1967).

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