Hideki Naganuma

Hideki Naganuma, born May 16, 1972 in Hokkaido prefecture, Japan, is a musician for SEGA best known for his work in the Jet Set Radio series and Sonic Rush series. His music is broadly defined as J-Pop, but can be quite hard to categorize. He is skilled at mixing Japanese techno, funk, soul, and hip-hop elements to create a unique and vivid sound.

When he was five years old, he started to play the electronic organ under the influence of an older sister. At fourteen years old, he became interested in western music and started to compose original songs. It was then Naganuma decided that he must have a job in the music business. He graduated from Kiyota High school in Sapporo.

His influences include Prince, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Donald Fagen, Norman Cook, Ennio Morricone, Chick Corea, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Hitoshi Matsumoto and Satoru Sayama. Naganuma's favorite video games are Gran Turismo, Resident Evil, Tomb Raider, Virtua Fighter, and The Legend of Zelda; his hobbies are music, movies, collecting CDs and DVDs, fighting sports, tennis and traveling.

Some of the equipment he uses includes Digital Performer, MOTU2408, Sound Designer II, Peak, Roland JV-1080, KORG Trinity, AKAI S3200XL, CLAVIA Nord Rack2 and YAMAHA O3D.

Production History

• Jet Set Radio (2000) — Music Composer & Sound Effects
• Jet Set Radio Future (2002) — Music Producer & Creator
• Sonic Rush (2005) — Sound Creator
• Yakuza (2005) — Speical Thanks
• Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz (2006) — Sound Creator
• Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (2007) — Sound Section Special Thanks(Sound Effects)