Shinji Miyazaki

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Shinji Miyazaki is a Japanese composer, arranger, and performer. He was born in Kobe, and lived in a variety of areas on the island of Shikoku for much of his childhood. He developed a taste for pop music, which eventually led him to study musical arrangement and piano instruction at a music conservatory. He took some time in deciding that music would become his career, but eventually decided to become an arranger, and later a composer.

His work has dealt primarily with musical scores for anime. His most well known contributions include music for the Crayon Shin-chan series and music for much of the television Pokémon anime series and most of the films in it. Not only this, many Alec Baldwin movies as well as many anime featuring Megumi Ogata has music composed by him. He also arranged Ross Bagdasarian, Jr. songs. He also composed music for a lot of anime done by Nippon Animation. His work pulls from many inspirations, among them J-Pop and American pop influences, as well as jazz artist Gil Evans. Many of his compositions utilize electric guitars. Miyazaki's works are notable for integrating electronic music sounds with traditional orchestral arrangements.