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Originally Posted by HarryT
The art world, rightly or wrongly, is male dominated. Can you name a famous woman composer, or artist? I don't think I could.
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You've probably never heard of them but my two favorite composers are women - Yoko Kanno and Yuki Kajiura.
Yoko Kanno is just incredible. She has produced probably over a couple hundred of high-quality, original, varied soundtrack albums. She can do almost any genre you can name - jazz, techno, full-scale symphonic orchestra, R'n'B, electronic, straight pop, commercial jingles - often all of them inside the same album. She also very rarely repeats herself unlike many other soundtracks which often have to be padded to full length with the "main theme" in several variations.
Kajiura is less famous and less prolific but I really like her synth/classic mix of music. What's remarkable is that she doesn't have a musical education - she graduated and started working as a programmer and had to learn many things "on the job".