Yoko Shimomura (下村陽子, Shimomura Yōko, born October 19, 1967 in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese composer and musician best known for her video game soundtracks for various video games.
One of her first experiences with music was when she was five years old, when her parents enrolled her in piano lessons. She took quickly to the piano and would stray from the written music to random combinations of notes, which would turn into her first original compositions.

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