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Rick Sakurai
Creative Director / Composer
MassiveMusic

TOKYO, JAPAN // Rick Sakurai is a Japanese-American music composer specialized in scoring original music for moving pictures. He believes creating music is like painting pictures. Every note, harmony and instrument are the "Color of Music". These music supports the picture and takes the project to a whole different level of production. Multi-Instrumentalist, Award Winning Composer, an Ultimate All-Rounder Music Producer, they're would be infinite ways to describe him. His works has been known internationally mainly in the United States, Japan, Europe and China.

After graduating Berklee College of Music, Rick began composing and producing professionally. After working as a one of the composer at JSM Music Inc. in New York for many years, he founded Crayon Music Studio in 2011 and worked with some of the world's most recognizable brands internationally. He relocated to Tokyo, Japan in 2015.

In 2017 he joined the world largest Music Agency, MassiveMusic as a Creative Director/Composer. You may remember one of his work from "Call of Duty: Ghost"'s trailer. This trailer was viewed on Youtube over 29 Million views. He's also a hot dog eating record holder at Spike's Junkyard Dogs in Boston, MA