COMPOSER

Kaoru Wada

1962 - Today

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Kaoru Wada (和田 薫, Wada Kaoru, born May 5, 1962) is a Japanese composer and arranger. He has composed the scores for many anime series, including Inuyasha, D.Gray-man, Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas, Samurai 7 and, more recently, Tesla Note. He also became known to the West through his arranged works for orchestra and piano in video games like Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts II. Wada, along with other later-famous musicians, studied at the Tokyo College of Music under Akira Ifukube and Sei Ikeno. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kaoru Wada has received more than 152,971 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Kaoru Wada is the 1,368th most popular composer, the 1,728th most popular biography from Japan and the 21st most popular Japanese Composer.

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  • 150k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.72

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Kaoru Wada ranks 1,368 out of 1,451. Before him are Stephen Schwartz, Abel Korzeniowski, Arne Nordheim, Vladimír Godár, Vladimir Jurowski, and Angus MacLise. After him are Lou Harrison, Thomas Bergersen, Fred Ebb, Norman Dello Joio, Stephen Warbeck, and Yuzo Koshiro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, Kaoru Wada ranks 493. Before him are Yevgeny Roizman, Corrado Lorefice, Sjón, Arsen Fadzaev, Mehdi Jomaa, and Aminata Touré. After him are Michelangelo Rampulla, Jerry Rice, Sakina Jaffrey, Bonnie Bassler, Carlos Daniel Tapia, and Naomi Wolf.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kaoru Wada ranks 1,728 out of 6,245. Before him are Katsutoshi Naito (1895), Yoshihiro Hamaguchi (1926), Masakuni Yamamoto (1958), Hiroshi Soejima (1959), Nobuyuki Hiyama (1967), and Mayumi Omatsu (1970). After him are Houko Kuwashima (1975), Hiroshi Hayano (1955), Hiro Shimono (1980), Noriaki Sugiyama (1974), Hitoshi Saito (1961), and Toru Goto (1934).

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Among COMPOSERS In Japan

Among composers born in Japan, Kaoru Wada ranks 21. Before him are Fumio Hayasaka (1914), Akira Yamaoka (1968), Hiroyuki Sawano (1980), Masaaki Suzuki (1954), Junichi Masuda (1968), and Toshio Hosokawa (1955). After him are Yuzo Koshiro (1967), Kazumi Totaka (1967), Michiru Yamane (1963), Hitoshi Sakimoto (1969), and Shoji Meguro (1971).

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