Jun Senoue

is a Japanese video game composer and musician. He works for Sega. He is known for his music in the "Sonic the Hedgehog" video game series. He is also the songwriter and lead guitarist for the band Crush 40. Crush 40 has also created songs to many "Sonic" games.
Biography.
Senoue was born on August 2, 1970 in Matsushima, Miyagi, Japan. He started playing piano at the age of three. He moved to Panama when he was 12 years old. In Panama, he became dedicated to rock music after being watching MTV. He started to teach himself to play the electric guitar when he was 15 years old. He created his first original band recording when he was 17 years old.
He graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University with a degree in economics in 1993. After that, Senoue sent demo tapes to Namco and Sega. Sega hired him. His first project with Sega was on "Dark Wizard". He arranged a medley of the game's music for its staff roll.