is a

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. She composed various soundtracks for

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games, including multiple in the ''

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'' series. She has occasionally been credited as Akari Groves, taking the surname of her husband.

Career

Kaida was a jazz piano major in college, spending her first year at the

Osaka College of Music is a private university in Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan. The predecessor of the school was founded in 1915, and it was chartered as a university in 1958. Undergraduate majors This college has following undergraduate majors * Music Business * Compo ...

before joining

in 1994. She became a

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composer in 2005, but still continued to work on various Capcom projects, most recently becoming part of the

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sound team for ''

'' games.

Works

References

External links

Brave Wave profile
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kaida, Akari 1974 births Capcom people Freelance musicians Japanese women composers Living people Musicians from Hyōgo Prefecture Video game composers Osaka College of Music alumni