Motoi Sakuraba was born in Akita Prefecture, Japan.

Sakuraba was called upon as a composer for various Camelot games, including the Mario Golf, Mario Tennis, and Golden Sun series.

* In 2007, Sakuraba was selected to join a long list of video-game composers to contribute music to Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

As noted, this concert was released on DVD and CD ; many Sakuraba fans worldwide were delighted by the news that the DVD was region-free.

The first six tracks that Sakuraba and his band played are confirmed to be new pieces and were sold at the event as a preview CD for his then upcoming solo album After all ... which was officially released by Strange Days Records on October 19, 2011.

It was written and programmed by Yoshiharu Gotanda, designed by Masaki Norimoto and scored by Motoi Sakuraba and Shinji Tamura.

The original game soundtrack was composed by veteran composer Motoi Sakuraba, as well as Shinji Tamura ; these two have been the primary music composers for the Tales series since then.

The music in Toadstool Tour was composed by Motoi Sakuraba, who has scored several other Mario Golf titles.

At the Pride Grand Prix 2000 Opening Round, Guy Mezger, one of Shamrock's best fighters, fought Kazushi Sakuraba, who at the time was considered to be one of the best pound for pound fighters in the world.

Sakuraba said, " I wanted to go another round, thinking it would be possible to salvage the match, but when it was decided to extend the fight, Ken Shamrock was making scary faces.

There was also a feeling that PRIDE may have had a quick trigger on Shamrock because they were heavily biased in favor of the Japanese legend Sakuraba.

In a largely strategic and uneventful fight, Gracie defeated Sakuraba by a somewhat controversial unanimous decision, not only many viewers and MMA sites felt that Sakuraba won the fight, Sherdog scored it 29 – 28 in favor of the Japanese fighter, but also due to the fact that Royce was caught with huge levels of Nandrolone in his system, “ Use of steroids is simply cheating ,” said Armando Garcia, California State Athletic Commission executive director.

It was essentially a continuation of UWF International, having most of its former roster: Nobuhiko Takada, Yoji Anjo, Kazushi Sakuraba, Daijiro Matsui, Naoki Sano, Masahito Kakihara, Yoshihiro Takayama, Kenichi Yamamoto and Hiromitsu Kanehara.

His first opponent was Kazushi Sakuraba in 1999.

Vítor controlled the first minutes of the fight before breaking his hand, the remainder of the fight was spent on his back being stomped and kicked by Sakuraba.

The music of Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean was composed and arranged by Motoi Sakuraba.

The music was composed by Motoi Sakuraba.

Prior to this all tri-Ace music was composed by Motoi Sakuraba.

These are " Mission to Deep Space " ( also in Star Ocean 2, Valkyrie Profile, and Star Ocean 3 ), " An Incarnation of Devil "( Star Ocean 2, Valkyrie Profile, and Star Ocean 3 ), and " Highbrow " ( also in Star Ocean 3 ). Tri-Crescendo, which has a strong affiliation with Sakuraba, was credited with " Sound Direction " for the game.

Furthermore, the soundtrack was released under the TEAM Entertainment label which is the primary promoter and distributor of Sakuraba.

It was composed and arranged by Motoi Sakuraba, who was in charge of all musical composition in Origins.

Sakuraba agreed to fight under these rules, and the contest went to a total of 90 minutes of fighting, after which Gracie's corner threw in the towel due to damage to Gracie's legs.

Sakuraba advanced to the next round, fighting a fifteen minute first round against eventual runner up Igor Vovchanchyn, after which Sakuraba's corner threw in the towel citing his exhaustion.

On June 14, 2007, the California State Athletic Commission declared that Gracie had tested positive for Nandrolone, an anabolic steroid, after his fight with Sakuraba.

Vovchanchyn scored well in the first round and won the fight after Sakuraba could not continue into round two.

Early in the fight, Sakuraba nearly ended things with a knee-bar towards the end of the first round.

Silva fought Japanese superstar Kazushi Sakuraba for the first time at Pride 13: Collision Course on March 25, 2001.

Silva knocked out Sakuraba with a two punch combination at 5: 01 into the first round.

Hunt stepped in as a late replacement for Sakuraba, and won a split decision against an outweighed PRIDE middleweight ( 205 lb ) champion Wanderlei Silva.

At Pride 17: Championship Chaos on November 3, 2001, Silva won the inaugural Pride middleweight ( 205 lb ) championship when he defeated Sakuraba for the second time.

On October 24, 2005, Shamrock lost to fellow mixed martial arts legend Kazushi " The Gracie Hunter " Sakuraba in Pride: Fully Loaded, by TKO.

According to Mezger, Pride did not like the outcome of the fight and changed the agreement / contract on the spot in order to give Sakuraba another chance to win the fight.

Motoi Sakuraba is also another well-known video game composer.

Kazushi Sakuraba, a Japanese athlete, competed in both professional wrestling and mixed martial arts and succeeded in both sports.

He is married to Yuko Sakuraba and has a daughter, Mio Sakuraba.

Sakuraba broke into the music scene as composer and keyboard player of the progressive rock band Deja Vu, which released an album, " Baroque in the Future ", in 1988.

The band later disbanded, and Sakuraba went on to release a solo progressive rock album, " Gikyoku Onsou ", in 1991.

In late 1989, Sakuraba began work as main composer for Wolf Team, a subsidiary of Telenet Japan.

* In 1999, long-time Sakuraba sound designer and programmer Hiroya Hatsushiba, a former member of Wolf Team and tri-Ace, founded tri-Crescendo.

In addition to all this, Sakuraba is regularly contracted for composing work in other media through his own TEAM Entertainment, a company founded in 1999 to promote and license the work of artists.

During July 2003, Sakuraba held a live concert in Tokyo, Japan.

On September 17 and September 18, 2011 at Club Citta in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Sakuraba and his band joined up with the Earthbound Papas, led by famous video game composer Nobuo Uematsu, to perform at Fantasy Rock Fest 2011.

Motoi Sakuraba takes the baroque and melodic Japanese progressive rock of the 1980s and expands it with his own trademark complex rhythms, emotional flutes, use of male choir and heavy reverb.

Sakuraba is also known for introducing many jazz-like improvisations to his music style.

On August 28, 2002 Filipović faced Japanese superstar Kazushi Sakuraba at Pride Shockwave.

Meanwhile, composer Motoi Sakuraba went freelance.

Sakuraba and Tamura both have cameo appearances in the game.

A player can meet Sakuraba several times in the game's different timelines and can get him to play the game's theme song on a piano, and the player can also view a recorded live performance of Tamura's concert.