Artist's albums
Piano Stories: FINAL FANTASY VI
2023 · album
Hymn of the Fayth from FFX
2023 · single
Silver Dragon (from "Final Fantasy IX")
2023 · single
Final Fantasy Piano
2023 · album
Rose of the Caribbean
2022 · single
Not Alone
2022 · single
The Best of Final Fantasy IV ( Piano Collections )
2022 · compilation
Mogzart: Volume One
2022 · EP
Ah! My Goddess! (Piano Themes)
2022 · EP
Aerith's Death Tribute (From "Final Fantasy 7")
2022 · single
The Best of Final Fantasy IX ( Piano Collections )
2022 · single
Setzer's Theme
2022 · single
Final Fantasy X: To Zanarkand
2021 · single
Final Fantasy VI: Terra's Theme
2021 · single
FITHOS LUSEC WECOS VINOSEC
2021 · single
The Story of Blik-O Original Soundtrack
2021 · album
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Biography
A prolific and versatile composer of popular video game and anime scores, most notably for the ubiquitous Final Fantasy game series, Nobuo Uematsu was born and raised in Kochi, Japan. A self-taught piano player, he graduated from Kanagawa University and played keyboards in local bands, eventually finding work as a composer for radio commercials by sending out his music demos. He moved into the video game medium in the mid-'80s when a friend offered work at the company then known as Squaresoft (later Square Enix). There, he composed music for dozens of games, including the first Final Fantasy installment, released in 1987. He went on to write or co-write music for the international blockbuster series through 2002's Final Fantasy XI. During that time, he released an album of original electronic keyboard music in 1994 titled Phantasmagoria, and many other game scores including 1995's Chrono Trigger (co-written with Yasunori Mitsuda). In his break from the Final Fantasy series after the 11th game, he composed a film score for 2003's Ah! My Goddess: The Movie, and founded his own companies, Smile Please in 2004 and Dog Ear Records Co., Ltd. in 2006. He also provided music for over a dozen video games including 2006's Blue Dragon, and television music for the 2007 anime series based on the Blue Dragon game. Uematsu composed music for the anime television series Guin Saga in 2009, and finally returned to the Final Fantasy franchise as the main composer for Final Fantasy XIV in 2010. He continued a dedicated schedule of game scoring into the 2010s, including but not limited to 2012's Fantasy Life, 2013's Hometown Story and Granblue Fantasy (both with Tsutomu Narita), and 2014's Terra Battle. In 2015, Square Enix released Bra Bra Final Fantasy: Brass de Bravo, the first in a series of recordings that arranged Uematsu's music from the Final Fantasy franchise for the Siena Wind Orchestra. ~ Marcy Donelson, Rovi