Minako Hamano

Minako Hamano is a Japanese composer of video game music working for Nintendo. She has composed music for Super Metroid, Metroid Fusion, Metroid: Zero Mission, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption and Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

In Super Metroid, Hamano originally recorded a voice for Samus during the game over sequence, but it had sounded too sexual, and thus it was removed.