Manami Kiyota

Manami Kiyota is a Japanese composer, singer, and radio presenter. She has composed, arranged, and sung music for the Xenoblade games, and she composed the majority of tracks in the Xenoblade Original Soundtrack.
==Biography==
Kiyota was born on the 3rd of April, 1979 in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. She became interested in music from a young age, having begun playing the piano at the age of 4.Profile on manamikiyota.com She grew up studying music, and in high school and college she learnt vocal music in classical, Bulgarian folk, and Japanese folk styles. She also studied composition and use of music synthesisers at this time.
Kiyota's first published work was her album Tsukimorino Matsuri / Manami Kiyota, which contained her original vocal works. Shortly afterwards, she performed as the main vocalist on the Final Fantasy song book: mahoroba, featuring songs from the Final Fantasy series of games (composed by Nobuo Uematsu).
Kiyota began work with the Xeno series as a composer in the development of Xenoblade Chronicles. Around this time in 2010, Kiyota founded her own music unit, 'manamik', and has produced via this until the present day. 
==Relevance to the Xeno series==
Kiyota has composed a significant number of tracks for the numbered Xenoblade games, particularly the original Xenoblade Chronicles. Her pieces tend to be used as cutscene and area themes moreso than battle themes, although she has composed the latter as well. She has also arranged several tracks, and has sung as the main vocalist both on her own tracks and those composed by others.
===Xenoblade Chronicles===
* Composer
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** Memories
** A Friend on My Mind
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** Ancient Mysteries
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** Intrigue
** Regret
** Face
** Disquiet
** Apprehension
** Reminiscence (Music Box)
** Egil's Theme
** Towering Shadow
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** Shadows Creeping
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** Rage, Darkness of the Heart
** Bionis' Awakening
** A Spiritual Place
** Zanza the Divine
** Futures That Lie Ahead
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** In the Refugee Camp
** Colony 6 - Ether Mine
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** Satorl Marsh (Night)
** Colony 6 - Silence
** Forest of the Nopon
** Forest of the Nopon (Night)
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** Frontier Village (Night)
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** Eryth Sea (Night)
** Alcamoth, Imperial Capital
** Alcamoth (Night)
** Where the Ancestors Sleep
** Colony 6 - Rebuilding
** Prison Island
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** Sword Valley (Night)
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** The Fallen Land
** The Fallen Land (Night)
** Colony 6 - Hope
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** Bionis' Interior (Carcass)
** Bionis' Interior (Pulse)
** Memory's End
** Colony 6 - Future
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** Gran Dell (Night)
* Arranger (all above tracks except for Colony 6 - Silence, Alcamoth (Night), Colony 6 - Hope, and Colony 6 - Future)
* Singer (Zanza the Divine (Definitive Edition))
===Xenoblade Chronicles 2===
* Composer
** The Ancient Vessel
** Gormotti Forest
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** The Heroic Adventures
** War and Peace
** A Place in the Sun
** Misgivings
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** Tensed Mind
** The Abandoned City
** Heart in the Fog
** The Ancient Vessel (Piano Arrange)
* Arranger (all above tracks except for The Ancient Vessel (Piano Arrange), as well as Orbital Ring)
* Singer (Elysium in the Dream, )
===Torna ~ The Golden Country===
* Composer
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** Auresco, Royal Capital/Night
===Xenoblade Chronicles 3===
* Composer and Arranger
** Indescribable Unease
** Iris Network
** Nearing the Enemy
** Quiet Intrigue
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** Those Who Devour Life
** Remorse
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** Great Cotte Falls/Night
** Light of the Moon - Hope
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** Syra Hovering Reefs/Night
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** Great Sword's Base/Night
** Co-credited alongside Yasunori Mitsuda, possibly because the track uses a melody from Mitsuda's Ouroboros Awakening.
** City/Night
** Battle on the Seas
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** Captocorn Peak/Night
** Converging Emotions
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** Elaice Highway/Night
** Grand Theater of LifeCo-credited alongside Yasunori Mitsuda, possibly because the track uses a melody from Mitsuda's .
** Z - Harbinger of the End
** Melia - Ancient Memories
** Yesterdale - Colony 9
** Yesterdale - Colony 9/Night
** Redeem the Future
** Redeem the Future - Finale
* Singer (Melia - Ancient Memories)
==Notes==
==Kiyotago==
Similar to Yuki Kajiura's Kajiurago, many songs by Kiyota feature gibberish lyrics. This includes:
===Xenoblade Chronicles===
* Ancient Mysteries
* Bionis' Awakening
* A Spiritual Place
* Zanza the Divine
* Satorl Marsh (Night)
* Memory's End
===Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition===
* Zanza the Divine (Definitive Edition ver.)
* Satorl Marsh/Night (Definitive Edition ver.)
* Eryth Sea (Definitive Edition ver.)
* Memory's End (Definitive Edition ver.)
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===Xenoblade Chronicles 2===
* The Ancient Vessel
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* The Abandoned City
===Xenoblade Chronicles 3===
* Nearing the Enemy
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* Battle on the Seas
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* Grand Theater of Life
* Z - Harbinger of the End
* Melia - Ancient Memories
===Future Redeemed===
* Redeem the Future
* Redeem the Future - Finale
==Other media==
===Manami Kiyota 20th Anniversary Live===
Manami Kiyota 20th Anniversary Live was a live concert of Kiyota's works on the 28th of October, 2023. Several pieces from the Xenoblade series were performed:
* Iris Network
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* Light of the Moon - Hope
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An official recording of the Auresco, Royal Capital performance was uploaded to YouTube.
==Trivia==
* Kiyota named one of her cats "" — an homage to Xenoblade Chronicles's forest of the same name.Post on X about Kiyota's cat
==Gallery==
Kiyota mitsuda xc3 recording.jpg|Kiyota (left) recording for Xenoblade Chronicles 3 with Yasunori Mitsuda.
===Artwork===
Riki illust.jpg|Illustration of Riki by Kiyota from her Twitter for the 6 year anniversary of the release of Xenoblade Chronicles
==External links==
* Official website
* VGMdb page
* Twitter
* Wikipedia page (Japanese)
* IMDB page
* XCDE promotional crossfade video highlighting Kiyota's compositions
* XC2 promotional crossfade video highlighting Kiyota's compositions
* XC3 promotional crossfade video highlighting Kiyota's compositions
===Interviews===
* VinculoUroboro (27 Oct 2023)
==References==
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