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September 4th, 2009 | Events
The other day, Keiichi Suzuki stopped by Itoi’s office because he wanted Itoi to help promote his latest upcoming album. While they ate at a restaurant, he mentioned that he had his 58th birthday the other day, so the restaurant people made a small birthday cake to celebrate. For those not in the know, Keiichi Suzuki was one of the two main musicians who worked on MOTHER 1 and MOTHER 2 / EarthBound.
If you’d like to send him a birthday message, his homepage is here, and he has a MySpace page here.
Also, if you haven’t already, check out these other things he’s done!
- The Origin of Dalaam’s Music
- Music video starring Shigesato Itoi and made by Keiichi Suzuki and the Moonriders
- Silicon Boy, by Keiichi Suzuki
- Keiichi Suzuki’s websites
- Zatoichi, the Blind Swordsman (DVD) – (Blu-ray) – Keiichi Suzuki did the music for this movie and won a Japanese Academy Award for it. It’s a pretty kickass movie, I saw it a few years ago. The ending came out of nowhere though 😛
- Here’s the soundtrack CD for it too, kind of crazy that the CD costs more than the movie though
- Moonriders CDs from Japan
Dunno when Hirokazu Tanaka or Shogo Sakai have birthdays, I just happened to come across this news because it was briefly mentioned on part of Itoi’s site yesterday.
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17 Comments to Keiichi Suzuki’s Birthday
 | santiagoff said on Sep. 4, 2009 |
That’s THE cake.
 | KingDarian said on Sep. 4, 2009 |
There’s more chocolate on the plate than the cake. What a cool guy.
 | Darien said on Sep. 4, 2009 |
Hirokazu Tanaka’s birthday is December 13 (1957) So sayeth the Wikipedia, anyhow.
Shogo Sakai was born in 1960, but the exact date of his birth I could not locate in the two minutes or so that I spend looking.
So I’m halfway useful. That’s better than usual!
 | Ice Sage said on Sep. 4, 2009 |
I hope it was a really good cake, considering how small it was. Oh well, it’s not like the restaurant staff knew in advance about it.
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| chimera said on Sep. 4, 2009 |
pff, I think we all know that the cake is a lie.
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| Saturnome said on Sep. 4, 2009 |
Is there a clear list of who made what exact piece of music in the games? I know Keiichi Suzuki’s name more than the others, but I do not know what was exactly his contribution to the game.
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| Komaru said on Sep. 4, 2009 |
At Saturnome:
I’m not sure if there’s a list of which individual person made each song (That would be crazy cool, though) but I know some of the people that worked on it were Keiichi Suzuki, Hirokazu Tanaka, Akio Ohmori, and Ritsuo Kamimura. There’s probably some more though- anybody know?
 | Mato said on Sep. 4, 2009 |
I was actually planning to make a list of each song and who did each one sometime. The soundtrack CDs give some information about this, but it’s not always clear since with the Mother 2 CD some tracks contain multiple songs.
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| Diverse said on Sep. 4, 2009 |
Anyone know who that is on his shirt?
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| KingDarian said on Sep. 4, 2009 |
O_O You’ve never heard of The Rolling Stones, Diverse? It’s Mick Jagger.
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| Saturnome said on Sep. 5, 2009 |
Even a partial list of who made what could be interesting, for getting an idea of the composers’ styles.
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| Fiends said on Sep. 5, 2009 |
No, I felt the same way about the shirt. It was a tip of the tongue type of ordeal… I couldn’t quite remember the name but I knew the face.
 | LucasTizma said on Sep. 5, 2009 |
I wrote Suzuki an e-mail in (likely horrific) Japanese thanking him for such great music. 🙂 Glad I get to experience some of his work!
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| 20thCenturyBoy said on Sep. 5, 2009 |
Nice Mick Jagger tee.
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| FinalstarmanDX said on Sep. 5, 2009 |
Lol. Happy birthday to Keiichi Suzuki and many more to come! :3
wow, that birthday cake is small.
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| bigbangbabyalex said on Sep. 5, 2009 |
If you look at http://vgmdb.net/artist/364 and go to the Mother, Mother 2, and Mother 1+2 soundtrack listings, at the bottom of each in the notes section it lists which songs Keiichi Suzuki and Hip Tanaka composed and so on.
Recent Comments
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“Small” birthday cake is right. He could finish that thing in one bite :O