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Japanese composer and voice actor

Kazumi Totaka (戸高 一生) is a Japanese video game composer and sound director who is best known for his various compositions in many Nintendo games. He occasionally does voice acting as well, most notably voicing Yoshi from the Mario series. He also directed the development of Wii Music.

Year Title Role(s) 1992 X Music Mario Paint Music with Hirokazu Tanaka and Ryoji Yoshitomi Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa NaruMusic Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden CoinsMusic 1993 The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening Music with Minako Hamano and Kozue Ishikawa 1995 Virtual Boy Wario Land Music 1996 Wave Race 64 Music 1997 Yoshi's Story Music 1999 Mario Artist: Paint Studio Music with Chris Jojo, Martin Goodall, and Suddi Raval 2000 Mario Artist: Talent Studio Music with Kenta Nagata and Toru Minegishi Mario Artist: Polygon Studio Music 2001 Animal Crossing Sound director, music with Kenta Nagata, Toru Minegishi, and Shinobu Tanaka Luigi's Mansion Music with Shinobu Tanaka Machop at Work Music with Takuto Kitsuta and Yasushi Ida Kingler's Day Music with Takuto Kitsuta and Yasushi Ida 2004 Pikmin 2 Sound director, music with Hajime Wakai 2005 Yoshi Touch & Go Sound director, music with Asuka Hayazaki and Toru Minegishi Animal Crossing: Wild World Sound director, music with Asuka Hayazaki 2006 Yoshi's Island DS Sound supervisor Default Wii Channels Music Wii Sports Sound director, music Kenkou Ouen Recipe 1000: DS Kondate Zenshuu Music 2008 Super Smash Bros. BrawlArrangements Wii Music Director Animal Crossing: City Folk Sound director, music with Manaka Kataoka and Shiho Fujii 2010 X Scape Music 2012 Animal Crossing: New Leaf Sound director, music with Manaka Kataoka and Atsuko Asahi2013 Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon Sound supervisor Wii Sports Club Music 2014 Yoshi's New Island Sound director Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii UArrangements 2015 Yoshi's Woolly World Main theme Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer Sound director, music 2016 Mini Mario & Friends: Amiibo Challenge Music supervisor 2017Mario Kart 8 DeluxeMusic with several others 2018 Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Arrangements Mario Tennis Aces Sound supervisor 2019 Yoshi's Crafted World Sound supervisor Luigi's Mansion 3 Sound supervisor 2020 Animal Crossing: New Horizons Sound director, music with several others

Totaka has portrayed several characters for Nintendo games. He mostly voices Yoshi (first appearing in Super Mario World), but he also voices Professor E. Gadd, Captain Olimar, Birdo, and K. K. Slider, as well as portraying Shy Guy from 1997 to 2002.

The character K. K. Slider in Animal Crossing is named Totakeke (とたけけ) in the Japanese version. This name could be derived from how Totaka's name is said in Japanese (Totaka K.) as last names usually come before personal names in the language. Totakeke is said to be an animal version caricature of Totaka. At the Mario & Zelda Big Band Live concert, some fans shouted "Totakeke" while the host grabbed a guitar and gave it to Totaka. Totaka then sat down on a chair like K. K. Slider while Shigeru Miyamoto held a picture of K. K. Slider next to Totaka.

"Totaka's Song" is a short, 19 note tune hidden in almost every game Totaka has written music for as an easter egg. It was first discovered on the title screen of Mario Paint and was later discovered as having originated in the Game Boy game X, which predated Mario Paint by two months.