Takafumi Wada
Japanese composer
Takafumi Wada (和田 貴史, Wada Takafumi; born February 8, 1979) is a Japanese composer, arranger, and music producer. He has provided the music for several anime series, television dramas, films, and video games. He is best known for his role on the soundtrack of The Seven Deadly Sins, Seraph of the End and Highschool of the Dead.
Wada is the founder and current CEO of the music production company Dimension Cruise, established in 2006. He is also the founder of the music agency Beagle Kick.
Biography
Wada was born in Chiba Prefecture, in 1979. After he finished highschool, he went to Tokyo and later graduated from the Department of Composition at Tokyo College of Music. After that, he studied composition under the music teacher Kazuki Kuriyama, whom Wada would work with as an assistant on future projects.
Wada's musician career started in 2002, with him primarily involved in video game soundtracks.
In 2006, he founded Dimension Cruise, a music agency with the labels Dimension Cruise Records and As Vox Records.
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