Kinuyo Yamashita

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Kinuyo Yamashita is a Japanese video game composer best known for creating the iconic soundtrack to the original Castlevania and helping define early Famicom/NES game music.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Japanese composer
person
video game composer
activeIn Japan NERFINISHED
activityStartPeriod 1980s
composedForPlatform Famicom NERFINISHED
Nintendo Entertainment System NERFINISHED
composedForSeries Castlevania NERFINISHED
composedTrackType chiptune
countryOfCitizenship Japan
employer Konami NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork music composition
video game industry
genre video game music
hasGender female
influenced early console game music style
instrument computer
synthesizer
knownFor composing the original Castlevania soundtrack
early Famicom game music
early NES game music
languageOfWork Japanese
medium video games
name Kinuyo Yamashita NERFINISHED
nationality Japan NERFINISHED
nativeName 山下 絹代 NERFINISHED
notableAchievement helped define the sound of early Famicom/NES music
notableGameScore Castlevania (NES) NERFINISHED
notableWork Castlevania (1986 video game) soundtrack NERFINISHED
occupation composer
video game composer
workedFor Konami NERFINISHED

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