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Keiichi Suzuki

( 1951 Births )

Career
Influences
Discography

with Hachimitsu-Pie
with Moonriders
The SUZUKI (with his bro..
No Lie-Sense (with Keral..
Controversial Spark
Suzuki-Matsuwo (with Kiy..
Solo studio albums
Video games

Filmography

Film
Television

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Earthbound Moonriders Mother Suzuki

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born August 28, 1951 is a Japanese musician, singer, and record producer who co-founded the Moonriders, a group that became one of Japan's most innovative rock bands. He is known to audiences outside Japan for his musical contributions to the video games EarthBound Beginnings/Mother (1989) and EarthBound (1994), both of which have been released on several soundtracks. More recently, he has composed film scores including (2003), Tokyo Godfathers (2003), Uzumaki (2000), Chicken Heart (2009), as well as Takeshi Kitano's Outrage trilogy.

Career

Suzuki was born in Tokyo, Japan, the son of actor Akio Suzuki. He has a younger brother, Hirobumi Suzuki. In the early 1970s, Keiichi became involved with the Japanese band Hachimitsu Pie, who released one album in 1973. Later in the 1970s, Suzuki functioned as the occasional leader and regular singer of the Moonriders — the group's first album was in fact credited to "Keiichi Suzuki and the Moonriders". The band included his brother Hirobumi on bass. Afterward, he collaborated with Yellow Magic Orchestra co-founder Yukihiro Takahashi as the duo The Beatniks. He was also a member of the trio Three Blind Moses.

As an actor, Suzuki appeared in the 1980s films; Body Drop Asphalt, Shunji Iwai's Swallowtail, and Love Letter, as well as other films from the late 1990s and early 2000s.

In 1989, Suzuki cowrote the soundtrack to the video game EarthBound Beginnings/Mother. In 1994, he would write more music for the game's sequel, EarthBound. A few years after EarthBound/Mother 2, Suzuki provided the music for the audio game .

His song "Satellite Serenade" was remixed by The Orb and was later featured on Sasha & Digweed's Northern Exposure and The Orb's Auntie Aubrey's Excursions Beyond the Call of Duty compilation.

In February 2008, Suzuki released a new solo album Captain Hate & First Mate Love in collaboration with Keiichi Sokabe, touring together in late spring 2008. The follow-up Pirate Radio Seasick appeared in 2009, and the third part In Retrospect in January 2011.

Influences

Suzuki cited John Lennon of the Beatles, the Beach Boys, Van Dyke Parks, Andy Partridge of XTC, Godley & Creme, Miklos Rozsa, and Harry Nilsson as influences, particularly on the tracks he composed for the Mother series.

Discography

with Hachimitsu-Pie

Sentimental Dohri ( "Sentimental Street")(1973)

with Moonriders

MOONRIDERS (1977)
Istanbul mambo (1977)
NOUVELLES VAGUES (1978)
MODERN MUSIC (1979)
CAMERA EGAL STYLO (1980)
Aozora Hyakkei ( "100 spectacular views of the blue sky") (1982)
MANIA MANIÈRA (1982)
AMATEUR ACADEMY (1984)
ANIMAL INDEX (1985)
DON'T TRUST OVER THIRTY (1986)
Christ, Who's gonna die first? ()(1991)
A.O.R. (1992)
Moonriders No Yoru ( "Night of the Moonriders")(1995)
Bizarre Music For You (1996)
GetsuMen Sanka ( "Lunar anthem")(1998)
dis-covered (1999)
Dire Morons TRIBUNE (2001)
P.W Babies Paperback (2005)
MOON OVER the ROSEBUD (2006)
Tokyo7 (2009)
Ciao! (2011)
it's the moooonriders (2022)

The SUZUKI (with his brother Hirobumi Suzuki)

The Suzuki meets GREAT SKIFFLE AUTREY（1990）
The Suzuki ’95（1995）
The Suzuki meets 栗コーダーカルテット（1998）

No Lie-Sense (with Keralino Sandorovich)

First Suicide Note (2013)
JAPAN'S PERIOD (2016)
駄々録〜Dadalogue (2020)

Controversial Spark

After Intermission (2019)

Suzuki-Matsuwo (with Kiyonori Matsuo)

One Hit Wonder（2023）

Solo studio albums

Hyi No Tama Boy 火の玉ボーイ (1976, Keiichi Suzuki and the Moonriders)
S.F. (1978), (宇宙からの物体X)
Suzuki White-Report Suzuki白書 (1991)
Tokyo Taro Is Living in Tokyo (1993, as Tokyo Taro)
Satelliteserenade (1994) – as Suzuki K1 >> 7.5cc
Yes, Paradise, Yes | M.R.B.S.(1999) – as Suzuki K1 >> 7.5cc
No.9 (2004) – with Moonriders
Captain Hate & First Mate Love ヘイト船長とラヴ航海士 (2008)
Pirate Radio, Seasick' シーシック・セイラーズ登場! (2009)
In Retrospective ヘイト船長回顧録ラヴ航海士抄 (2011)
Keiichi Suzuki: Music for Films and Games (2010, Soundtracks Compilation)
Records and Memories (2015)
Mother Music Revisited (2021)

Video games

with Hirokazu Tanaka
with Hirokazu Tanaka, Hiroshi Kanazu, and Toshiyuki Ueno

with Hirokazu Tanaka, Hiroshi Kanazu, and Toshiyuki Ueno
Original game supervisor
	Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U
	Super Smash Bros. Ultimate