Kenichiro Fukui

Kenichiro Fukui
Born	May 4 Hyogo, Japan
Genres	Rock
Occupations	Composer, musician, keyboardist
Instruments	Piano, organ, guitar, drums, keyboard
Years active	1991–present
Labels	DigiCube Square Enix Universal Music Group Sony Music Distribution Dog Ear Records
Associated acts	The Black Mages

Kenichiro Fukui (福井 健一郎, Fukui Ken'ichirō) is a Japanese video game composer and musician. Before working at Square Enix, he was employed at Konami. He is an arranger and a keyboardist in the band The Black Mages, formed in 2003. Additionally, Fukui arranged Angela Aki's "Kiss Me Good-Bye" from Final Fantasy XII. In October 2007, he left Square Enix to become a lecturer, although he still works with The Black Mages. His Konami Kukeiha Club nickname was "Funiki Fukui".

Biography

Fukui joined the video game company Konami in 1990. He worked on the compositions of "Lethal Enforcers" and "Gakumon no Susume". He was in charge of the keyboard in the KuKeiHa CLUB, and played in the live event at the Budokan in Tokyo.

In 1995, he moved to Osaka to join "Solid", a subsidiary of Square (now Square Enix). He then transferred to Tokyo. While at Square, he worked on such compositions as "Einhänder" and "Front Mission 5: Scars of the War", and managed such arrangements as "Final Fantasy VII Advent Children" and "Hanjuku Hero".

In 2007, he was appointed at the HAL College of Tokyo (which opened in spring 2009), to give guidance to students seeking to pursue a career in production of music for games, TV and live events.

Discography

Video game soundtracks

Sound Effects

• Sunset Riders (1991)

Composer

• Lethal Enforcers (1992)
• G.I. Joe (1992) – with Tsutomu Ogura
• Violent Storm (1993) - with Seiichi Fukami
• Einhänder (1997)
• All Star Pro-Wrestling (2000) – with Tsuyoshi Sekito and Kumi Tanioka
• All Star Pro-Wrestling III (2003) – with Tsuyoshi Sekito
• Front Mission 5: Scars of the War (2005) – with Hidenori Iwasaki, Yasuhiro Yamanaka, and Masayoshi Soken
• Project Sylpheed (2006) – with Takahiro Nishi, Junya Nakano, Kumi Tanioka, and Keigo Ozaki
• Lord of Arcana (2010) - with Nobuo Uematsu and Satoshi Henmi

Arranger

• Hanjuku Hero 4 ~The 7 Heroes~ (2005) – with Michio Okamiya
• Final Fantasy XII (2006)
• Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings (2007) – with Kimihiro Abe, Mitsuhiro Kaneda, and Noriyuki Kamikura
• Final Fantasy IV (Nintendo DS) (2007) – with Junya Nakano
• Otomedius G (2009)
• Final Fantasy XIV (2010) - with Tsutomu Narita

Film soundtracks

Arrangement

• Final Fantasy VII Advent Children (2005)

Other works

• Konami All-Stars -The 1000-Ryo Box Heisei 4th Year Edition (1991)
• Xexex Original Soundtrack (1992) - CD exclusive arrangement 'Breeze'
• Kukeiha Club ~ Hope (1993)
• The Black Mages (2003)
• The Black Mages II The Skies Above (2005)
• The Black Mages III: Darkness and Starlight (2008)
• Mushihimesama Double Arrange Album (2009)
• DeathSmiles Arrange Album (2010)
• Hoshi no Kashu (2011)

External links

• The Black Mages official Japanese website