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Joe Hisaishi

real name 藤沢守 (Fujisawa Mamoru)

Nakano, Japan

Joe Hisaishi is credited on 697 releases across 211 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1978–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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Joe Hisaishi (久石譲, Hisaishi Jō) is a Japanese composer, musical director, conductor, and pianist, born December 6, 1950, in Nakano, Nagano, Japan. He started his career as a composer of contemporary classical music when he was still a student at the Kunitachi College of Music. At that time, he was into minimalist music. His stage name Hisaishi Joe (family name first) came from Quincy Jones. The kanji for "Hisaishi" could be read as "Kuishi", which is close to the Japanese pronunciation of "Quincy", and "Joe" of course came from "Jones". Hisaishi himself chose this name when he needed a stage name.

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