The Woman Who Made Bebop A Jam
Plenty of musical artists create music for anime, but in 1998, Yoko Kanno took it a step further and formed a band herself for the sole purpose of creating the soundtrack to Cowboy Bebop. What resulted was one of the most legendary names in the history of anime music, and all that for just one of the approximate 60 projects her name has been attached to in anime alone.
The creation of The Seatbelts, their music, and the name recognition of the group alone — despite them only existing through the lens of Cowboy Bebop, is a testament to Kanno's composing. Since her earliest works in 1993, she has created a wide breadth of sounds that never lack in soul, thanks to the collaborative spirit of her style, bringing together the best she can find.
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Some fans will listen to Kanno's work for years without having ever heard a word from the woman herself, and such a thing is a loss because hearing her describe her past is ever so enlightening. For starters, it's funny to think that she almost wasn't a musician. There was always music, from practicing piano to participating in contests, but she actually pursued literature.
In an interview with Red Bull Music Academy in 2014, she described her attraction to literature as a byproduct of her adolescent feelings. «It was not obvious deviance like coloring my hair or things like that, but I thought with earnestness and passion about how I wanted the world to end,» she told. She put her complicated thoughts into writing and contemplated becoming a novelist.
She majored in Literature at Waseda University, and yet still found herself writing music for school electives or as favors to other students. As she was going to school for literature, her endeavors
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