Laura Shigihara
Shigihara has worked on over 30 other published video game titles including "Deltarune", "World of Warcraft", "To the Moon", High School Story and the 5th Anniversary Edition of "Super Meat Boy". She co-created the ending theme song for "" with C418 and worked together with Yasunori Mitsuda on the official Square Enix Chrono Trigger/Chrono Cross 20th Anniversary Album. Biography. Born to a Japanese father and a French American mother, Shigihara grew up in both the United States and Japan. She was classically trained on the piano for 11 years and taught herself guitar and drums. During college  at UC Berkeley studying International Relations, Business and Computer Science, she was given an old version of "Cakewalk" (known as "Sonar" before 2018) which she used to start learning about mixing, arranging and production by recreating old video game soundtracks and composing her own songs. After a friend leaked her original material to record companies in Japan, Shigihara was offered record contracts as a singer there, but ended up turning them down for personal reasons. Shortly after returning to the US, Shigihara took a job as the sound director for a company that produced an audio talk show and English  learning materials through Apple Japan. She also released a studio album and composed her first video game soundtrack for a small casual game called "Wobbly Bobbly". She stated that she would work voluntarily, and soon the company liked her work and paid her to create music for several subsequent projects. From there she built up her portfolio and has worked on over 30 published titles including "Plants vs. Zombies", "Deltarune", "World of Warcraft", "Minecraft" and the indie RPG "To the Moon". She participated in Akira Yamaoka's charity album "" where she contributed an original song called "Jump", alongside other composers  like Nobuo Uematsu and Yasunori Mitsuda. On November 16, 2011, she released her single "Cube Land" in relation to "Minecraft" and "Plants vs. Zombies". Shigihara published the adventure game "Rakuen" in 2016. Shigihara is a Christian. Shigihara is a Twitch streamer who streams weekly performing songs she composed, as well as English and Japanese covers of various music genres. Discography. Soundtrack albums. Shigihara's works also include: