Nobuo Uematsu
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 Nobuo Uematsu facts

• He is considered to be one of the most famous and respected composers in the video game community
• Sometimes referred to as the "Beethoven of video games music", he appeared five times in the top 20 of the annual Classic FM Hall of Fame
• Uematsu, a self-taught musician, began playing the piano at the age of twelve, with English songwriter Elton John as his biggest influence
• Uematsu joined Square in 1986, where he met Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi
• They have worked together on many video game titles, most notably the games in the Final Fantasy series
• After 18 years with Square, he left in 2004 to found his own company called Smile Please, and the music label Dog Ear Records
• He has since composed music as a freelancer for many other video games, including ones developed by Square Enix and Sakaguchi's development studio Mistwalker
• Many soundtracks and arranged albums of Uematsu's game scores have been released
• Pieces from his video game works have been performed in various Final Fantasy concerts, where he has worked with Grammy Award-winning conductor Arnie Roth on several of these performances
• From 2002 to 2010, he was in a hard rock band with Square Enix colleagues Kenichiro Fukui and Tsuyoshi Sekito called The Black Mages, in which he played electronic organ and other keyboards