Kazumi Totaka

Kazumi Totaka (戸高 一生, Totaka Kazumi, born August 23, 1967) is a video game composer. Totaka has been the sound director for all mainline games in, as well as the composer for many of the tracks. He has composed various songs from other Nintendo games, and is known to hide a short melody known as "Totaka's Song" in games he has worked on. This is present in all Animal Crossing games as "K.K. Song".

The character K.K. Slider is a caricature of Totaka, and his full name Totakeke is derived from "Totaka K.", since family names are written first in Japan. While most of K.K.'s songs in the original games were composed by Toru Minegishi, Totaka rearranged them for the live performances.

Totaka is also known for voicing Yoshi in the Mario series, which he has done since the game Yoshi's Story in 1997.

Works

 * – Sound Director
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 * – Sound Director
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Song credits
Songs are listed by the first game they appeared in, though they may have reappeared in future games.

In

 * "New Year's Wish"
 * "Meteor Shower"
 * "Kapp'n's Song"
 * "K.K. Song"

In

 * "Marine Song 2001"
 * "Stale Cupcakes"
 * "K.K. Birthday"

In

 * "Title"
 * "Heavy Rotation" (Kapp'n's taxi theme)
 * All hourly music (with Asuka Ohta)
 * "The Roost"

In

 * "In Kapp'n's Bus"
 * "City Plaza"

In

 * "K.K. Disco"
 * "Animal City"

In

 * Entire soundtrack

In

 * "9 AM"

Trivia

 * Totaka is seen playing "K.K. Bossa" alongside (someone dressed as) K.K. in the Animal Crossing Direct for.
 * Aside from their name, Totaka and K.K. also share their birthday, August 23rd.