Kinuyo Yamashita
50 top tracks
Kinuyo Yamashita
50 top tracks
Albums

Castlevania
Kinuyo Yamashita

Video Games Live: Level 2
Kinuyo Yamashita

Castlevania Soundtrack
Kinuyo Yamashita

Mega Man X3 Sound Collection
Kinuyo Yamashita
![dodonpachi DAI-OU-JOU [arrange album] — cover art by Kinuyo Yamashita](/frogtoon_logo.png)
dodonpachi DAI-OU-JOU [arrange album]
Kinuyo Yamashita

Megaman X3
Kinuyo Yamashita

Mega Man X3
Kinuyo Yamashita

Power Blade 2
Kinuyo Yamashita

Power Blade
Kinuyo Yamashita

Castlevania (NES) Original Soundtrack
Kinuyo Yamashita

Mega Man: The Wily Wars
Kinuyo Yamashita

Super Smash Bros. Anthology - Vol. 30: Castlevania
Kinuyo Yamashita
Biography
Kinuyo Yamashita is a video game music composer. Her most famous work is Konami's Castlevania, which she composed shortly after graduating from college for the Nintendo Entertainment System. All of the credits for the American were fictional and notably included misspellings of Bela Lugosi and Bram Stoker. The game was called Demon Castle in Japan, and is by far her most critically acclaimed musical work. As of 2006, she is presently an active musician in Osaka, Japan as of 2006 working with pri...Read more on Last.fm
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Kinuyo Yamashita is a video game music composer. Her most famous work is Konami's Castlevania, which she composed shortly after graduating from college for the Nintendo Entertainment System. All of the credits for the American were fictional and notably included misspellings of Bela Lugosi and Bram Stoker. The game was called Demon Castle in Japan, and is by far her most critically acclaimed musical work. As of 2006, she is presently an active musician in Osaka, Japan as of 2006 working with primarily Gameboy Advance titles. She produces music on a hybrid Macintosh / Roland Keyboard system and uses a technique called "ramming" to squeeze the music into cart specs, which is described on her site.
Interestingly enough, Kinuyo also dabbled in a cover band. She played American pop covers on the piano and also sings for the duet “Honey Honey” formed with her friend Yoshiko. The name on the album cover is not the last name she’s presently using on the site, so we can assume this was an old project she’s since left behind. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Kinuyo+Yamashita">Read more on Last.fm</a>. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
