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.

His works include (list taken from Sakuraba's official English webpage):

Movies

  Diatom 4 (Lecture Videos by University of Tokyo)
  Blue Remains (CG Movie by Gaga Communication)

TV Animation

  Bouken Yuuki Pluster World (TV Tokyo)
  Wei§kreuz GlŸhen (Kids Station)
  Umigame to Shonen (TV Asahi)
  Atashinchi (TV Asahi)
  Star Ocean EX (TV Tokyo)
  Genso Maden Saiyuki (TV Tokyo)

TV Drama

  Vanny Knights (TV Asahi)
  Weekend Drama Series (TV Asahi)
      Otenki Onei-san
      Otenki Onei-san 2 ~Ryoko Pri Pri~
      Omata Kaoru
      Gal Boy!
      Toumei Shoujo Ea
      Cyber Bi-Shoujo Telomere
      Pretty Monkey
      Roppongi Kyabakura Tenshi

CDs

Game Music Arrangements for TEAM Entertainment

  Rogue Galaxy Premium Arrange
  Phantasy Star Online Episode 1 & 2 Premium Arrange
  Dark Chronicle Premium Arrange
  Famicom 20th Anniversary Arrange Soundtracks
  Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Children Arrange Tracks

Game Music Arrangements for tri-Ace

  Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria Voice Mix Album
  Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria Arrange Album
  Star Ocean & Valkyrie Profile Arranged The Best Plus
  Motoi Sakuraba Live Concert: Star Ocean & Valkyrie Profile (CD & DVD)
  Star Ocean: Till The End of Time Voice Mix Album
  Star Ocean: Till The End of Time Arrange Album
  Star Ocean: Blue Sphere Arrange & Sound Trax
  Valkyrie Profile Voice Mix Arrange
  Valkyrie Profile Arrange Album
  Star Ocean: The Second Story Arrange Album
  Star Ocean Perfect Sound Collection

Game Music Arrangements for Camelot Software Planning

  Mario Sports The Best
  Force of Light / Shining Force III Original Soundtrack
  Shining the Holy Ark Original Soundtrack
  Beyond the Beyond Original Soundtrack

Music for @Midi's People

  @Midi's Freedom
  @Midi's Battle
  @Midi's Dance
  @Midi's Summer

Game Music Arrangements for Wolfteam

  Maneuver Cepter Granada
  FZ Senki: AXIS
  Zan Kagerou no Toki
  Arcus II ~ Silent Symphony

Solo Works

  FM Oscillator Manicas
  Motion (Official hp present)
  Gikyoku Onsou
  Pazzo Fanfano di Musica

Deja-Vu

  Last Live (VHS)
  Crime Syndicate
  Baroque in the Future

Games

Asmik Ace

  Tenshou Gakuen Gekkouroku (PS2)

Kids Station Games (Kids Station)

  Duel Masters ~Birth of Super Dragon~ (PS2)

tri-Crescendo (Monolith Software, Namco)

  Trusty Bell ~Chopin no Yume~ (XB360)
  Baten Kaitos series
      Baten Kaitos ~Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean~ (GC)
      Baten Kaitos II ~Wings of the Beginning and the Heir to the Gods~ (GC)

tri-Ace (Square Enix)

  Valkyrie Profile series
      Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth (PS1, PSP)
      Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria (PS2)
  Radiata Stories (PS2)
  Star Ocean series
      Star Ocean (SFC)
      Star Ocean Second Story (PS1)
      Star Ocean Blue Sphere (GBC)
      Star Ocean: Till the End of Time (PS2)
      Star Ocean: Till the End of Time: Director's Cut (PS2)

Camelot Software Planning (Sony, Sega, Nintendo)

  Mario Sports series
      Mario Golf 64 (N64)
      Mario Golf (GBC)
      Mario Tennis 64 (N64)
      Mario Tennis (GBC)
      Mobile Golf (GBC)
      Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour (GC)
      Mario Golf: Advance Tour (GBA)
      Mario Power Tennis (GC)
      Mario Tennis: Power Tour (GBA)
  Golden Sun series
      Golden Sun (GBA)
      Golden Sun ~Lost Age~ (GBA)
  Shining series
      Shining the Holy Ark (SS)
      Shining Force III Scenario 1 ~Ohto no Kyojin~ (SS)
      Shining Force III Scenario 2 ~Nerawareta Miko~ (SS)
      Shining Force III Scenario 3 ~Hyouheki no Jajinguu~ (SS)
      Shining Force III Premium Disk (SS)
  Minna no Golf (Hotshots Golf, Everybody's Golf) (PS1)
  Beyond the Beyond (PS1)

Namco Tales Studio (Namco, Telenet Japan)

  Tales of series
      Tales of Phantasia (SFC, PS1, GBA, PSP)
      Tales of Destiny (PS1, PS2)
      Tales of Phantasia: Narikiri Dungeon (GB)
      Tales of Eternia (PS1, PSP)
      Tales of Fandom Vol.1 (PS1)
      Tales of the World: Narikiri Dungeon 2 (GBA)
      Tales of Destiny 2 (PS2, PSP)
      Tales of Symphonia (GC, PS2)
      Tales of Rebirth (PS2)
      Tales of the World: Narikiri Dungeon 3 (GBA)
      Tales of Eternia Online (PC)
      Tales of the Abyss (PS2)
      Tales of the Tempest (DS)
      Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology (PSP)

Wolfteam (Telenet Japan)

  Cybernetic Empire (PS1)
  Parlor Mini series (SFC)
  Parlor Parlor series (SFC)
  Tokyo Twilight Busters (PC98)
  The Grail Hunter (PC98)
  Cosmic Fantasy 4: Ginka Shounen Densetsu series
      Totsunyuu Hen: Densetsu e no Prelude (PCE)
      Gekitou Hen: Hikari no Umi no Naka de... (PCE)
  Angel's Poem ~Prayer of the White Wings~ (SFC)
  Hiouden series
      Hiouden (PC98)
      Hiouden II (PC98)
      Hiouden ~Legend of the Scarlet King~ (SFC)
      Hiouden II'HD (PC98)
  Zan series
      Zan ~Kagerou no Toki~ (PC98, X68, PCE)
      Zan ~Yaksa Enbukyoku~ (PC88, PC98, MD)
      Zan Gear (GG)
      Zan II ~Kagerou no Toki~ (PC98, TOWNS)
      Zan II ~Soshuhen~ (PC98)
      Zan ~Kagerou no Jidai~ (PCE)
      Zan II Spirits (SFC)
      Zan III ~Tenun Ware ni Ari~ (PC98, DOS5, TOWNS)
      Zan III Spirits (SFC)
  Ace o Nerae! (SFC)
  Arcus series
      Arcus II ~Silent Symphony~ (PC88, MSX, X68, PC98)
      Arcus Odyssey (X68, MD)
      Arcus III (PC98)
      Arcus I-II-II (MCD)
      Arcus Spirits (SFC)
  Diamond Player (PC98, TOWNS)
  Devastator (MCD)
  Earnest Evans series
      El Viento (MD)
      Earnest Evans (MCD, MD)
      Annet Futatabi (Annet Again) (MCD)
  Road Blaster FX (Road Avenger) (MCD)
  Apros (PC98)
  Time Gal (MCD)
  Thunder Storm FX (Cobra Command) (MCD)
  Tenbu series
      Tenbu ~Sangokushi Seishi~ (PC98)
      Tenbu Limited (PC98)
      Tenbu ~Mankan Zenseki~ (PC98)
  Aisle Lord (MCD)
  Suzaku (PC98)
  Fhey Area ~Century of the Gods~ (MCD)
  Sol-Feace (Sol-Deace) (X68, MD, MCD)
  Niko©÷ (PC88, X68, TOWNS, PC98, MSX)
  Shinsengumi ~Bakumatsu Genshigou~ (PC98)
  Crystal Chaser (PC98)
  Maneuver Cepter Granada (X68, MD)
  Daitoua Mokujiroku Goh (PC98)
  Span of Dream (PC98)
  FZ Series: AXIS (X68, MD)
  Ryu (PC98, X68)
  D: European Mirage (PC98)
  Arcusyu (PC88, MSX, PC98)

As an additional note, one of his newer projects is a collaboration with many other well-established game music composers for Nintendo and Sora's Super Smash Brothers Brawl. He is also planning to release "Forest of Glass", his second solo album containing 14 original songs, in January 2008.

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).