COMPOSER

Kenji Kawai

1957 - Today

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Kenji Kawai (川井 憲次, Kawai Kenji, born April 23, 1957) is a Japanese music composer and arranger. Known as one of the biggest names in the soundtrack world, he has worked on a wide range of mixed media productions, including anime, TV shows, films and video games. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kenji Kawai has received more than 521,419 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Kenji Kawai is the 717th most popular composer (up from 938th in 2019), the 796th most popular biography from Japan (up from 944th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Japanese Composer.

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  • 520k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.14

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.08

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Kenji Kawai ranks 717 out of 1,451. Before him are Vatroslav Lisinski, Anton Walter, Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, Josef Tal, Amy Beach, and Nicolas Gombert. After him are František Brixi, Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann, Johann Krieger, Sigismund von Neukomm, Johan Helmich Roman, and John Bull.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Kenji Kawai ranks 106. Before him are Marlon Jackson, Stefan Bellof, Mikhail Pletnev, Christian Schmidt, Steve Harvey, and Goodluck Jonathan. After him are Hansi Müller, John Lee Ka-chiu, María Conchita Alonso, Steve Lukather, Nellie Kim, and Peter Høeg.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kenji Kawai ranks 796 out of 6,245. Before him are Yusuke Omi (1946), Yumi Umeoka (1950), Shigeyoshi Suzuki (1902), Shunsuke Nakamura (1978), Tsuyoshi Kunieda (1944), and Hironori Ōtsuka (1892). After him are Kiyoura Keigo (1850), Takizawa Bakin (1767), Oku Yasukata (1847), Kodama Gentarō (1852), Tatsuya Shiji (1938), and Yasushi Inoue (1907).

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Among COMPOSERS In Japan

Among composers born in Japan, Kenji Kawai ranks 6. Before him are Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952), Ichirou Mizuki (1948), Toru Takemitsu (1930), Miki Matsubara (1959), and Shunsuke Kikuchi (1931). After him are Toshi Ichiyanagi (1933), Koichi Sugiyama (1931), Koji Kondo (1961), Keiko Abe (1937), Nobuo Uematsu (1959), and Akira Ifukube (1914).

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