Takenobu Mitsuyoshi
Mitsuyoshi's name first gained major recognition after the release of "Daytona USA", for which he had written all music and personally sang all vocals. With the arcade games, "Derby Owners Club", "World Club Champion Football" and "Star Horse", he also recorded live orchestras. Aside from original compositions, he also arranges, provides vocals, and is a performer for a variety of projects, including S.S.T from 1988 to 1993, and [H.] from 2004 onwards. He is well-known voicing the character Kage-Maru of "Virtua Fighter" franchise. Concerts. Mitsuyoshi's music from "Shenmue" was performed live at the first  Symphonic Game Music Concert in Leipzig, Germany in 2003. It was the first time that a concert featuring video game music was held outside Japan. Mitsuyoshi attended the world-premiere of "Play! A Video Game Symphony" at the Rosemont Theater in Rosemont, Illinois in May 2006. His music from the "Shenmue" series was performed by a full symphony orchestra. This event drew nearly 4000 attendees. In 2007, his music from the "World Club Champion Football" series was presented at the fifth "Symphonic Game Music Concert". Takenobu Mitsuyoshi joined the choir during the performance. For "Symphonic Shades – Hülsbeck in Concert" in  2008, Takenobu Mitsuyoshi arranged music from "Apidya", by German composer Chris Hülsbeck. The event was performed by the WDR Radio Orchestra Cologne in Cologne, Germany and marked the first live radio broadcast of a video game music concert. His first dinner show was scheduled for March 22, 2020, but was postponed to August 23 of that year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and then rescheduled again to January 24, 2021, due to the spread of the second wave of infection. He did an online dinner show livestream on August 23, 2020 to make room for the reschedule.