Shoji Meguro
| Shoji Meguro | |
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| Native name | 目黒 将司 |
| Born |
June 4, 1971 Tokyo, Japan |
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| Years active | 1995–present |
Shoji Meguro (目黒 将司 Meguro Shōji?, born June 4, 1971) is a Japanese composer, guitarist, and video game director who works for video game company Atlus. Meguro joined the company in 1995, and has since composed for many of their games, mainly those in the Persona series.
Born in Tokyo, Japan, Meguro became familiar with technology from a young age, due to his parents running a factory. As a child, Meguro did not take an interest in popular music, and instead listened to and enjoyed classical. In junior high, he became interested in the likes of jazz artists such as T-Square, Herb Alpert, and Casiopea. It was in junior high that he became particularly fond of writing and profiteering music. He then majored in hydrodynamics at the College of Industrial Technology at Nihon University.
After sending a demo tape and attending two interviews, Meguro was hired by Atlus in 1995. He got his start in the company by working on Revelations: Persona for the PlayStation, for which he composed 16 tracks, including one that became a staple in the series: "Aria of the Soul". Meguro continued to work on several projects in the mid to late 1990s, including Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers on the Sega Saturn, composing around 50 pieces for the game, as well as Maken X on the Dreamcast.
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