浜口史郎 Biography
Shirou Hamaguchi(浜口史郎) is a Japanese music composer and a famous orchestrator. Best known for his additional music "Ah! My Goddess (TV) (2005)" and variations orchestral arrangement of Final Fantasy Series. Shiro Hamaguchi was born on the 19th November, 1969 (in Fukuoka). He was admitted into the University of Arts in Tokyo and graduated in 1994. After graduation, he has directed operations for a project given by Victor Entertainment for 2 years. He joined IMAGINES afterwards. IMAGINES was founded in 1986 by Yuji Saito. It's a group of nine persons sound-team doing various things in the field of music. Hamaguchi first collaborated with Square and Nobuo Uematsu to orchestrate on a few pieces from Final Fantasy 7 Original Soundtrack. Following the success, Hamaguchi has been arranging orchestration for many more final fantasy pieces for SquareEnix. While Uematsu Nobuo doing the composing, Shiro Hamaguchi arranged the instrumentals/orchestration which makes "Suteki Da Ne", "Eyes on Me", "Melodies of Life" some of the most popular songs in Final Fantasy Series. Hamaguchi also orchestrated several tracks on the Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children - Original Soundtrack.
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