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Kaoru Wada

1962 - Today

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Kaoru Wada (和田 薫, Wada Kaoru; born May 5, 1962) is a Japanese composer and arranger. He has composed the scores for many anime series, including Inuyasha, D.Gray-man, Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas, Samurai 7 and, more recently, Tesla Note. He also became known to the West through his arranged works for orchestra and piano in video games like Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts II. Wada, along with other later-famous musicians, studied at the Tokyo College of Music under Akira Ifukube and Sei Ikeno. He is also an apprentice of the famed Godzilla composer, Akira Ifukube. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2024). Kaoru Wada is the 1,361st most popular composer (up from 1,368th in 2024), the 1,906th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,727th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Japanese Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Kaoru Wada ranks 1,361 out of 1,451. Before him are Monty Norman, Abel Korzeniowski, George Fenton, Jerry Herman, Udo Zimmermann, and Javier Navarrete. After him are Roy Harris, Eubie Blake, Christian Wolff, George Perle, Samuel Adler, and Zlatan Stipišić Gibonni.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, Kaoru Wada ranks 506. Before him are Jeff Garlin, Margaritis Schinas, Dagmar Neubauer, Jeff Dunham, Luis José Rueda Aparicio, Campino, and Doris Bures. After him are Kenneth Lonergan, Piyapong Pue-on, Fernando Martín Espina, Joan Carreras i Goicoechea, and Angela Schanelec.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kaoru Wada ranks 1,906 out of 6,245. Before him are Reiji Nakajima (1979), Shizuka Kudo (1970), Kei Taniguchi (1974), Mamoru Miyano (1983), Nozomu Kanaguchi (1981), and Mitsuki Ichihara (1986). After him are Yoshiaki Sato (1969), Toshiki Sakai (1993), Jun Shimizu (1985), Yasushi Yoshida (1960), Hiroshi Abe (1958), and Akiho Yoshizawa (1984).

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Among COMPOSERS In Japan

Among composers born in Japan, Kaoru Wada ranks 21. Before him are Shirō Sagisu (1957), Akira Yamaoka (1968), Masaaki Suzuki (1954), Toshio Hosokawa (1955), Hiroyuki Sawano (1980), and Junichi Masuda (1968). After him are Yuzo Koshiro (1967), Mamoru Samuragochi (1963), Kazumi Totaka (1967), Michiru Yamane (1963), Shoji Meguro (1971), and Hitoshi Sakimoto (1969).

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