Masashi Hamauzu

well I love music!! I love jazz and any kind of music that sounds good to me. this time I wanna talk about a composer. He's working as music composer in a game company named Square Enix(developer of the famous Final Fantasy). He was born in German. His was a piano teacher and his father, Akimori Hamauzu, an opera singer. He developed an interest in music while in kindergarten. Growing up in Germany, Hamauzu received piano and singing lessons from his parents and created his first original compositions during high school. After his brother was born, the family moved to Osaka, Japan. He enrolled in the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, where he joined a student ensemble as a pianist. Hamauzu met his wife, Matsue Hamauzu, at the university, and they have two children. Matsue worked alongside Hamauzu on the soundtrack to Final Fantasy VII as a soprano and Sigma Harmonics(Nintendo DS game) as a scat singer; she was also a soprano for the score to Final Fantasy VIII. After graduating from the university, he thought about becoming a classical musician, but he eventually found out that he wanted to work with game music instead.

Hamauzu composes music in many different styles, often using multiple styles throughout the various pieces of a soundtrack. He mostly creates clasiccal and ambient music, and uses the piano predominantly as an instrument. He frequently incorporates dissonance to provide an atmospheric effect. In Unlimited Saga, for example, the style of his compositions mix classical marches, tango music, electronic ambiance, instrumental solos, and jazz(YEAAAHHHH,JAZZZ BABYYYY!!!!).

Masashi is also the composer for Final Fantasy XIII soundtrack and it was well received by all the fans, and I personally love it!!!

This is Masashi. Well I can't find another better pict, so this is the one that I took from the internet. He may not be handsome(yeaahh me too not handsome), but don't ever judge a book by its cover. This guy is absolutely talented!!!!!












These are the example of Masashi's masterpiece in Final Fantasy XIII. Hope you like it too!!!!