Yoko Kanno

Yoko Kanno (菅野 よう子 "Kanno Yōko", born March 19, 1964 in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan) is a famous composer and keyboardist. She makes music for anime, games, and movies. Meow on the Bridge (music office) and Captain Duckling Records (music label).
Biography.
Some of her most famous music includes "Voices" ("Macross Plus"), "Tank!" ("Cowboy Bebop"), "Yakusoku wa Iranai" ("Escaflowne"), "Gravity" ("Wolf's Rain"), and "Inner Universe" (""). She was the singer of a band called "The Seatbelts", which was created just to make the "Cowboy Bebop" soundtrack.
She has worked for many Koei games sold from the late 1980s to 1990s and even for a Dreamcast game. Because she worked a lot in the "Cowboy Bebop" anime, the game sold by Bandai also features her work.
Apart from anime and games, Kanno also makes pieces for live-action films and television commercials. She likes Grand Funk Inc. recording studio for producing for these two media. Contributions to films started in the 90s but only since 2002 has there been a trend towards the medium. Most of the latter were shown in international film festivals.
There is some rumor that one of her frequently hired vocalists, Gabriela Robin, is Kanno herself under a pseudonym. 
She was married to fellow composer Hajime Mizoguchi. They worked together to create the music for "Please Save My Earth" and "Escaflowne".
She has gone to Otakon and Anime Expo in 1999, as well as Anime Expo New York in 2002.
On September 13, 2005, Gamespot said that Kanno had been hired by Gravity Corporation to create the music for their in-development MMORPG, "Ragnarok Online 2". 
Movie works.
All of the movies are live-action except for "Noiseman Sound Insect".