植松伸夫

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Nobuo Uematsu (Born March 21, 1959) is best known for his composition for the Squaresoft (now Square Enix) games company throughout the 1980s and 1990s, most notably on the Final Fantasy series of games. Composing all his work on the keyboards, he has been hailed as the most popular and beloved composer of video game soundtracks.

Uematsu enjoyed commercial success with the track “Eyes on Me” from Final Fantasy VIII, performed by Hong Kong singer Faye Wong (王菲). This song, released in 1999, sold 400,000 copies, a record for any track taken from a video game, as well as winning the “Song of the Year” award at the 1999 Japan Gold Disc Awards. Uematsu was subsequently named in Time Magazine’s list of the Top 100 Innovators - Music, and has toured Japan playing classical concerts on several occasions.

His music itself is notoriously eclectic, tracks featured skip between pop-style balladry, to fusion styles incorporating african traditions to, in recent years, a number of celtic-influenced recordings and releases. Many of his works also contain elements of progressive rock and heavy metal, especially battle theme-musics in Final Fantasy-series. Most notable details about this are heavy metal-like riffs like the one in Those Who Fight Further/Still More Fighting, kinda complex and fast keyboard/synthesizer solos and song-structures. His formation of The Black Mages, a rock band, in 2003, allowed him to experiment with his own compositions, releasing band renditions of a significant number of tracks from his soundtracks.
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Add this track to your playlist Breezy (Remix) full track	3:12	6,285	Buy mp3
Add this track to your playlist Eyes On Me (Remix) full track	3:33	1,752	Buy mp3
Add this track to your playlist Maybe I'm A Lion (Remix) full track	3:43	1,814	Buy mp3
Add this track to your playlist Find Your Way (Remix) full track	4:25	1,496	Buy mp3

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3	1	Add this track to your playlist J-E-N-O-V-A	368
1	2	Add this track to your playlist Ending Theme	304
2	3	Add this track to your playlist Liberi Fatali	303
2	4	Add this track to your playlist Kiss Me Good-Bye full track	295
–	5	Add this track to your playlist Tifa's Theme	292
1	6	Add this track to your playlist Prelude	283
1	7	Add this track to your playlist To Zanarkand	269
–	8	Add this track to your playlist Eyes on Me	264
2	9	Add this track to your playlist Ahead on Our Way	262
–	10	Add this track to your playlist One Winged Angel	258
4	11	Add this track to your playlist Fighting	249
3	12	Add this track to your playlist Beyond The Wasteland	243
5	12	Add this track to your playlist Battle in the Forgotten City	243
2	14	Add this track to your playlist For the Reunion	240
2	15	Add this track to your playlist Cosmo Canyon	239
4	15	Add this track to your playlist Fisherman's Horizon	239
4	17	Add this track to your playlist Black Water	233
4	18	Add this track to your playlist Blue Fields	231
7	19	Add this track to your playlist Cloud Smiles	228
4	20	Add this track to your playlist Opening	227

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Top Tracks, Last Six Months

–	1	Add this track to your playlist Kiss Me Good-Bye full track	5,687
–	2	Add this track to your playlist Liberi Fatali	4,106
–	3	Add this track to your playlist J-E-N-O-V-A	3,989
–	4	Add this track to your playlist Ending Theme	3,589
–	5	Add this track to your playlist Tifa's Theme	3,452
4	6	Add this track to your playlist Prelude	3,223
1	7	Add this track to your playlist Opening	3,192
2	8	Add this track to your playlist Eyes on Me	3,191
2	9	Add this track to your playlist Fighting	3,162
1	10	Add this track to your playlist Blue Fields	3,159
4	11	Add this track to your playlist One Winged Angel	3,145
4	12	Add this track to your playlist Breezy (Remix) full track	3,139
1	13	Add this track to your playlist Ahead on Our Way	3,116
1	14	Add this track to your playlist Cosmo Canyon	3,005
–	15	Add this track to your playlist Beyond The Wasteland	3,001
2	16	Add this track to your playlist For the Reunion	2,991
–	17	Add this track to your playlist Fisherman's Horizon	2,913
–	18	Add this track to your playlist Black Water	2,886
–	19	Add this track to your playlist To Zanarkand	2,866
–	20	Add this track to your playlist Battle in the Forgotten City	2,779
–	21	Add this track to your playlist Farm Boy	2,703
–	22	Add this track to your playlist Water	2,645
2	23	Add this track to your playlist Sign	2,591
–	24	Add this track to your playlist Cloud Smiles	2,590
2	25	Add this track to your playlist Cinco de Chocobo	2,578
1	26	Add this track to your playlist Cid's Theme	2,523
1	27	Add this track to your playlist Find Your Way	2,493
–	28	Add this track to your playlist Violator	2,463
–	29	Add this track to your playlist Gold Saucer	2,427
–	30	Add this track to your playlist The Oath	2,418
–	31	Add this track to your playlist Savior	2,378
–	32	Add this track to your playlist J-E-N-O-V-A (FFVII AC Version)	2,354
–	33	Add this track to your playlist Aerith's Theme	2,337
3	34	Add this track to your playlist Fanfare	2,329
–	35	Add this track to your playlist The Prelude	2,316
2	36	Add this track to your playlist Succession of Witches	2,313
1	37	Add this track to your playlist Vamo' alla Flamenco	2,296
–	38	Add this track to your playlist Ami	2,262
–	39	Add this track to your playlist Shuffle or Boogie	2,225
–	40	Add this track to your playlist End Credits	2,080
–	41	Add this track to your playlist Don't Be Afraid	2,061
–	42	Add this track to your playlist The Castle	2,049
–	43	Add this track to your playlist Eternal Harvest	2,045
–	44	Add this track to your playlist The Successor	2,033
1	45	Add this track to your playlist Main Theme	2,032
1	46	Add this track to your playlist The Man With the Machine Gun	2,011
–	47	Add this track to your playlist Still More Fighting	1,970
–	48	Add this track to your playlist Silence and Motion	1,965
–	49	Add this track to your playlist Waltz de Chocobo	1,946
–	50	Add this track to your playlist The Chase Of Highway	1,889

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