Nobuo Uematsu
Nobuo Uematsu (Japanese植 松 伸 夫Nobuo Uematsu, born March 21, 1959 in Kochi, Kochi Prefecture) is a Japanese composer and musician, music for video games and computer games, and sometimes also composed for films.
Biography
After graduating high school, Uematsu graduated from the University Kanagawa. When Uematsu was 22, he entered many amateur bands with a keyboard player, but soon realized that writing music appealed to him more than playing. Therefore, he began a career as a composer and sent demo tapes to many businesses. Eventually he was hired and wrote music for radio CM.
In 1985, Uematsu was from a friend, the Square at the video game company Co., Ltd.. was busy, asked if he would write music for some video games. So Uematsu began to write soundtracks, including for almost all games of known Final Fantasy series by Square Soft. In these he also collaborated with other artists. In November 2004, he left the company Square Enix to work as a freelance composer. His company is called Smile Please.
The music by Nobuo Uematsu was brought in numerous concerts for the performance, for example in the Game Music Concert series in Japan since 1991; 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2007 as part of the game concert in Leipzig ( game music concert ), as well as in the concert 20,020,220 Music From Final Fantasy or the Tour de Japon 2004., The Dear Friends concert in 2004 in Los Angeles introduced the first Final Fantasy concert outside Japan dar. 2005 began a Dear Friends-style tour of the U.S., stations have included Chicago and San Francisco. In addition, Nobuo Uematsu occurs in person at the stage when his band, The Black Mages playing rock arrangements of Final Fantasy titles.
Nobuo Uematsu currently lives with his wife Reiko in Japan.