Gabriela Robin

Gabriela Robin is a singer and lyricist, credited for nonsensical and broken language lyrics (known as “Gablish”) and vocals on many songs composed and arranged by Yoko Kanno.There is virtually no information available on Gabriela Robin, leading many to speculate that “Gabriela Robin” is a pseudonym used by Yoko Kanno herself. The fact that Robin seems to have done no work apart from Kanno (with the exception of the work of Kanno’s former husband , Hajime Mizoguchi), as well as lyrics and vocals credited to both Kanno and Robin in different sources, seem to support this theory. One may also note Kanno’s refusal to speak of Robin, and Mizoguchi’s response that Robin’s identity and language are a “company secret”. However, vocalist Ilaria Graziano, who works frequently with Yoko Kanno, has been cited as saying that Robin is a person separate from Kanno.Some of the better-known soundtracks with performances by Robin are Cowboy Bebop, Jin-Roh, Macross Plus, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Please Save My Earth, The Vision of Escaflowne, Earth Girl Arjuna, Genesis of Aquarion, Turn A Gundam and Wolf’s Rain.There exist several unequivocally real persons bearing the name ‘Gabriela Robin’ about whom information can be easily located (on the Internet and elsewhere), including a Central American author and artist, a law student and a music producer. However, it has been confirmed that they are not the same “Gabriela”.