COMPOSER

Hitoshi Sakimoto

1969 - Today

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Hitoshi Sakimoto (崎元 仁, Sakimoto Hitoshi; born February 26, 1969) is a Japanese composer and sound producer. He is best known for scoring the video games Final Fantasy Tactics and Final Fantasy XII, though he has composed soundtracks for numerous other games. Sakimoto first played music and video games in elementary school and began composing music professionally in 1988. He worked at the video game company Square from 1998 to 2000, before founding the music and sound production company Basiscape in 2002. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Hitoshi Sakimoto is the 1,423rd most popular composer (down from 1,411th in 2024), the 2,614th most popular biography from Japan (down from 2,040th in 2019) and the 27th most popular Japanese Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Hitoshi Sakimoto ranks 1,423 out of 1,451. Before him are William Alwyn, Michiru Yamane, Judith Weir, Inon Zur, Jeremy Soule, and Shoji Meguro. After him are Ola Gjeilo, Justin Hurwitz, Abdurehim Heyit, Brett Dean, Ezio Bosso, and Marc Shaiman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1969, Hitoshi Sakimoto ranks 705. Before him are Satoru Noda, Ramón Ramírez, Dmitri Kondratyev, Paea Wolfgramm, Marie Bäumer, and Ilya Tsymbalar. After him are Marcel Keizer, Magnus Svensson, Fabien Roussel, Lahcen Abrami, Shaka Hislop, and Maria Benvinda Levy.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hitoshi Sakimoto ranks 2,614 out of 6,245. Before him are Sho Kamimura (1989), Kentaro Yabuki (1980), Taishi Endo (1980), Nozomi Hiroyama (1977), Tsuneyuki Ueda (1985), and Shoji Meguro (1971). After him are Junichi Misawa (1985), Hiroyuki Inagaki (1970), Seiko Hashimoto (1964), Shinji Yamaguchi (1996), Kazuhiro Koso (1959), and Teruyoshi Ito (1974).

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Among COMPOSERS In Japan

Among composers born in Japan, Hitoshi Sakimoto ranks 27. Before him are Kaoru Wada (1962), Yuzo Koshiro (1967), Mamoru Samuragochi (1963), Kazumi Totaka (1967), Michiru Yamane (1963), and Shoji Meguro (1971).

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