Grant Kirkhope (born July 10, 1962) is a British video game music composer … Read Full Bio ↴Grant Kirkhope (born July 10, 1962) is a British video game music composer and audio director. He was employed by Rare in October 1995 and has written soundtracks for numerous of their games, such as Banjo-Kazooie and Perfect Dark. After nearly 13 years in service for the company, he resigned from Rare on July 18, 2008 and moved to the US. Taking the next step towards his desired profession, Kirkhope joined Big Huge Games on July 30, the same year, where he worked as the team's audio director until the studio was put defunct 2012.
His career as a composer has involved the following games:
• Donkey Kong Land 2 (1996)
• GoldenEye 007 (with Graeme Norgate and Robin Beanland, 1997)
• Banjo-Kazooie (1998)
• Donkey Kong 64 (1999)
• Banjo-Tooie (2000)
• Perfect Dark (with David Clynick, 2000)
• Grabbed by the Ghoulies (2003)
• Viva Piñata (with Steve Burke) (2006)
• Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise (2008)
• Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts (with Robin Beanland and David Clynick, 2008)
• Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (2012)
For samples of past works, more information and further updates, see the official website at www.grantkirkhope.com
His career as a composer has involved the following games:
• Donkey Kong Land 2 (1996)
• GoldenEye 007 (with Graeme Norgate and Robin Beanland, 1997)
• Banjo-Kazooie (1998)
• Donkey Kong 64 (1999)
• Banjo-Tooie (2000)
• Perfect Dark (with David Clynick, 2000)
• Grabbed by the Ghoulies (2003)
• Viva Piñata (with Steve Burke) (2006)
• Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise (2008)
• Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts (with Robin Beanland and David Clynick, 2008)
• Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (2012)
For samples of past works, more information and further updates, see the official website at www.grantkirkhope.com
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Grant Kirkhope Lyrics
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Gobi's Valley Down in Gobi's Valley there's gonna be a lot to…
Overture Now! For the millions watching, are you ready for my…
The Phantom of the Bwahpera Act 1 Now! For the millions watching, are you ready for my…
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Mattcraze
Holy smokes this is an amazing mash up. There's so many different themes in this that became LATER themes, even as late as Nuts&Bolts. It's actually fun to listen to how many throwbacks he put into the N&B soundtrack. I hear a bit of Nutty Acres' Jiggy Challenge in the "Chase" Theme for instance.
Fredrik1ST
I've never heard this before. Yet it's giving me tingles of nostalgia all over.
PorkyBot07
Theese songs really makes me feel nostalgic especially "big belly"
Ryan Chaves
Man, these music are all AWSOME !!!
Willem Den Bokkenrijder
very nice to hear this music and that most of it shined through into grant's later piece in banjo,dk and pinata
TH126
this early project slowly formed into banjo-kazooie and the music seemed to form as well. I love learning about Banjo-Kazooie's origins, im really interested in it for some reason :) lol The end of "Main Theme" (2:36-2:46) was DK Isles from DK64! :)
Potatosaremyfriends1
Wow... to break up all of these songs into pieces and ad like 2 more minutes to them would be hard, because you're completely changing an idea.
pdxbla
@piemaster64 it's probably 'cause you usually can recognize grant kirkhope's style from different games... in a good way! The first song in the part 2 actually was remade for dk64. first song in this video was remade for viva pinata trouble in paradise. and few songs were used for banjo kazooie games.
pdxbla
@TH126 I'm very interested in it too. this "dream" project didn't actually form into banjo kazooie. it was an rpg game. go to grant's website(link's in the description) to read the whole story.. it's very interesting. the main character became bear at some point. and then banjo was born... and later they cancelled the whole game. and started from the beginning to do a platforming game which became banjo kazooie.
CrashBan4 T.F.S.B
Hey Grant is there anyway you could possibly put the main theme of Dream in Super Smash Bros?!😁😁😁 Please!!! Put it in! It's too good to leave alone! It's a MASTERPIECE!