Akira Ifukube

Akira Ifukube is a Soundtrack artist from Japan, born on May 31, 1914.

伊福部昭 (Akira Ifukube; 1914–2006) was a Japanese composer of classical music and film scores, perhaps best known for his work on the soundtracks of the Godzilla movies. Akira Ifukube was born on 31st May 1914 in Kushiro on the Japanese island of Hokkaido, the third son of a Shinto priest. Much of his childhood was spent in areas with a mixed Japanese and Ainu population, and his father, unusually for the time, socialised with Ainu. Ifukube was strongly influenced by the musical traditions of both peoples .