Motoi Sakuraba:
Sakuraba has been a musical composer for many years, known best by many for his work with video games. Taken from Biography Base:

Sakuraba broke into the music scene as composer and keyboard player of the progressive rock band Deja Vu, which released an album, "Baroque in the Future", in 1988. The band later disbanded, and Sakuraba went on to release a solo progressive rock album, "Gikyoku Onsou", in 1990. During his work as video game composer he continued to produce heavily extended arrangements of his compositions.

Late 1989, Sakuraba began work as main composer for Wolf Team, a subsidiary of Telenet Japan. In 1994, former Wolf Team composer, director and composer Masaaki Uno, started working at Camelot Software Planning as coordinator and sound director, employing Sakuraba as composer for all Camelot games and developing games for Sony, Sega and Nintendo. In 1995, Wolf Team developed the break through game Tales of Phantasia for Namco, starting the third most successful video game series in Japan behind Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy. Wolf Team continued to develop games for Namco in the Tales series while keeping Sakuraba (and the other Wolf Team composer Shinji Tamura) as composer, until it morphed into the Namco Telenet joint subsidiary Namco Tales Studio in 2003. In 1995, former Wolf Team director and producer Jun Asanuma as well as Tales of Phantasia writer and programmer Yoshiharu Gotanda founded tri-Ace with financial backing of Enix, creating the Star Ocean series and, again, employing Sakuraba for all games. In 1999, long time Sakuraba sound designer and programmer Hiroya Hatsushiba, former member of Wolf Team and tri-Ace, founded tri-Crescendo while continuing to contribute sound work to tri-Ace games. In 2001, tri-Crescendo started working on Baten Kaitos together with Monolith and with financial backing of Namco, Hatsushiba as director and main programmer and Sakuraba, again, as composer. Sakuraba is regularly contracted for composing work in other media through his own TEAM Entertainment, a company founded in 1999 to promote and license the work of artists.

During July, 2003, Sakuraba held a live concert in Tokyo, Japan. He performed progressive rock interpretations of music from the PlayStation games Star Ocean: The Second Story and Valkyrie Profile.

Sakuraba's previous English webpage, now operated as an unofficial site lists all his up-to-date works. A quick summary of his works include:

TV Animation such as Bouken Yuuki Pluster World, Tales of the Abyss, Weißkreuz Glühen, Star Ocean EX, and Genso Maden Saiyuki.

TV Drama such as Vanny Knights.

CDs/Arragements such as Rogue Galaxy Premium Arrange, Phantasy Star Online Episode 1 & 2 Premium Arrange, Famicom 20th Anniversary Arrange Soundtracks, all Valkyrie Profile and Star Ocean arrange albums, Golden Sun Dark Dawn Special Soundtrack, Mario Sports The Best, and his solo works like Forest of Glass, Gikyoku Onsou, and Motion.

Games such as the Star Ocean series, the Valkyrie Profile series, Radiata Stories, End of Eternity/Resonance of Fate, Infinite Undiscovery, Trusty Bell ~Chopin no Yume~/Eternal Sonata, the Baten Kaitos series, the Mario Golf and Mario Tennis series, the Golden Sun series, the Tales series, the Shining Force series, Deathsmiles 2 X, the Yuusha 30/Half-Minute Hero series, Valhalla Knights: Eldar Saga, Otomedius G, Minna no Golf/Hotshots Golf, Tokyo Twilight Busters, the Arcus series, and contributions to Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

Motoi was born on August 5th, 1965, is married to Yuko Sakuraba, and has a daughter named Mio.

Progressive Sound:
"Prosou" is the TFL-recognized fanlisting for Motoi Sakuraba. It's been online since January 3rd, 2005 (01/03/2005).