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Nobuo Uematsu

1959 - Today

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Nobuo Uematsu (植松 伸夫, Uematsu Nobuo, born March 21, 1959) is a Japanese composer and keyboardist best known for his contributions to the Final Fantasy video game series by Square Enix. A self-taught musician, he began playing the piano at the age of twelve, with English singer-songwriter Elton John as one of his biggest influences.Uematsu joined Square in 1986, where he first met Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi. The two later worked together on many games at the company, most notably in the Final Fantasy series. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nobuo Uematsu has received more than 1,604,165 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Nobuo Uematsu is the 840th most popular composer (down from 784th in 2019), the 866th most popular biography from Japan (down from 834th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Japanese Composer.

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  • 29

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  • 4.19

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  • 2.98

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Nobuo Uematsu ranks 840 out of 1,216Before him are Nikolai Zaremba, Robert Volkmann, Elliott Carter, Emil von Reznicek, Korla Awgust Kocor, and La Monte Young. After him are Antonín Vranický, Anthony van Hoboken, Guy Ropartz, Alfred Bruneau, Charles Burney, and Carl Schuricht.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Nobuo Uematsu ranks 132Before him are Baltazar Maria de Morais Júnior, Pietro Vierchowod, Jim Yong Kim, Bernardo Rezende, Roberto Moreno, and Irene Cara. After him are Steven Knight, Hassan Diab, Massimo Bonini, Majid Majidi, Majed Abdullah, and Erhard Loretan.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Nobuo Uematsu ranks 866 out of 6,048Before him are Chiyonofuji Mitsugu (1955), Kusumoto Ine (1827), Tarō Kōno (1963), Norio Ohga (1930), Hitoshi Igarashi (1947), and Koichi Tohei (1920). After him are Tōson Shimazaki (1872), Maruyama Ōkyo (1733), Futabatei Shimei (1864), Akinori Nakayama (1943), Hiroshi Nakajima (1928), and Takehiko Inoue (1967).

Among COMPOSERS In Japan

Among composers born in Japan, Nobuo Uematsu ranks 8Before him are Toru Takemitsu (1930), Koichi Sugiyama (1931), Ichirou Mizuki (1948), Miki Matsubara (1959), Shunsuke Kikuchi (1931), and Keiko Abe (1937). After him are Kenji Kawai (1957), Akira Ifukube (1914), Toshi Ichiyanagi (1933), Yasushi Akutagawa (1925), Fumio Hayasaka (1914), and Koji Kondo (1961).

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