Mitsuo Hagita (萩田光雄, Hagita Mitsuo), born June 16, 1946, in Shizuoka, Japan, is a Japanese arranger, composer and musical producer.
Biography
After graduating from the Keio University, he set his goal to be arranger and composer.[2] In 1973, he made debut as an arranger with the song "Hitoribocchi no Heya" by Masa Takagi. He won an award for Best Arrangement on the Japan Record Awards for two consecutive years - 1975 and 1976.[3] Since 1976, he is member of the copyright collection society JASRAC and music association Japan Composers & Arrangers Association.[3][4] On the same year, he released his first solo work Secret Love.[5] In the span of 45 years of his career, he arranged over 4,000 songs.[2] He is considered as one of the most renovated and representative music arranger in the Japanese music industry.[1][6]
