Naoshi Mizuta

Mizuta, Naoshi 
Naoshi Mizuta (水田直志 born January 24, 1972, in Kochi, Japan) is the solo composer for all of the music in the Final Fantasy XI expansion games. He signed up with Square Enix in 1999 to compose the soundtrack to Parasite Eve II. Afterward, Mizuta took a hiatus from composing video game music. His big break came in 2002 when Square Enix hired him on to compose the soundtrack to Final Fantasy XI along with Nobuo Uematsu and Kumi Tanioka. When the Rise of the Zilart expansion came out in 2003 Uematsu and Tanioka were busy with other projects, and Naoshi was given sole responsibility for composing its soundtrack by Square Enix. 
Naoshi is also the bass player for The Star Onions. 
==Discography==
* Street Fighter Zero2 Underground Mixxes "Da Soundz of Spasm" (1996)
* Parasite Eve II Original Soundtrack (1999)
* Final Fantasy XI Original Soundtrack (2002)
* Final Fantasy XI Rise of the Zilart Original Soundtrack (2003)
* Final Fantasy XI Chains of Promathia Original Soundtrack (2004)
* Final Fantasy XI - Music from the Other Side of Vana'diel (2005)
* Final Fantasy XI Treasures of Aht Urhgan Original Soundtrack (2006)
* Square-Enix music Official Bootleg Volume 3 (2007)
==External Links==
*SquareSound Biography of Naoshi Mizuta
*Final Fantasy Music Online Mini-Biography about Naoshi Mizuta
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