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Kazumi Totaka is a Japanese video game composer, sound director and voice actor for Nintendo. He is known for his music in many Nintendo games, such as Mario, Zelda, Animal Crossing and Yoshi, and for creating the hidden tune "Totaka's Song".
Kazumi Totaka (戸高 一生, Totaka Kazumi?) (Tóquio, 23 de Agosto de 1967) é um compositor musical japonês, notório pela composição de várias trilhas-sonoras de jogos eletrônicos, especialmente os jogos da Nintendo. Kazumi é conhecido também por ser o dublador do Yoshi, personagem da série Mario.
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Kazumi Totaka is a veteran Nintendo composer and sound director, who has been behind the music of several games since the Game Boy era. He mostly works on the Animal Crossing and Yoshi franchises.
He is mostly known for inserting a hidden song into many of the games he worked on as an easter egg, as well as for being the voice of Yoshi, Birdo, Professor E. Gadd, and Captain Olimar.
Totaka joined the company in the Nintendo R&D1 department, where he composed on games like Mario Paint and Super Mario Land 2. However, in the Nintendo 64 era, he was transferred to the Nintendo EAD Sound Group, where he worked under supervision from Koji Kondo. After his work on Yoshi's Story and Animal Crossing, he has been the sound director of most of the games of those series. He also composed the music for most of the Wii's channels and was the director for Wii Music.
While working on Yoshi's Story, Totaka recorded the characteristic voice samples of Yoshi, which would be reused in many following games featuring the character (although he sometimes provided new samples over the years). He has also voiced other characters, like Professor E. Gadd and Birdo in the Mario series, and Olimar, Louie, the President of Hocotate Freight, the Hocotate Ship and many other characters in Pikmin 2.
Outside of Nintendo, Totaka plays the vibraphone as a member of the jazz band A Slice of Life (formerly Spiritual Vibes), which occasionally provides concerts through Japan. He lent his vibraphone talent for Mario Kart 8.
The character K.K. Slider (Totakeke) in the Animal Crossing series is based on him. Additionally, Totaka has also arranged the majority of K.K. Slider's "aircheck" repertory into live versions that the character will play upon request on Saturday nights.
•F-1 Race (Game Boy) (1990)
•X (1992) - Music
•Mario Paint (1992) - Sound Staff
•Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru (1992) - Sound Composer
•Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins (1992) - Music Composer
•The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (1993) - Sound Composer [Note: sound programming & sound effects; some music]
In many Nintendo games where Kazumi Totaka has been a sound/music composer, he has inserted a very simple song in random places that has come to be known as Totaka's Song. It has appeared in most of the games that Kazumi Totaka has worked on, including Mario Paint, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, Luigi's Mansion, and Animal Crossing.
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2.Listed on the Canadian Copyright Database entry for this title
3.According to his website, Hirokazu Tanaka only worked in sound effects and programming on 4.https://www.pikminwiki.com/Music_in_Pikmin_2
5.https://vgmdb.net/album/10379
6.https://vgmdb.net/album/96462
7.https://www.nintendo.co.jp/nom/0105/kaibo/talk/index.html
•Kazumi Totaka at the Internet Movie Database
•Kazumi Totaka at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kazumi Totaka is a video game composer, sound director, and voice actor for Nintendo. He is known for creating the songs and character K.K. Slider in the Animal Crossing series, as well as voicing Yoshi in the Mario series.
7 de set. de 2024 · Kazumi Totaka is a Nintendo composer and voice actor for several Super Mario games. He is known for creating the modern voice of Yoshi and inserting a hidden song called "Totaka's Song" in many games.
Evolution of Totaka's Song in Nintendo Games starting in 1992 with Mario Paint until 2019 with Luigi's Mansion for the Nintendo 3DS.
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Learn about Kazumi Totaka, a veteran composer and director at Nintendo who created music and sound for games like Animal Crossing, Yoshi's Story, and Wii Music. Find his biography, discography, game projects, and interviews on Square Enix Music Online.
