Laura Shigihara is a video game composer, independent game developer, and singer-songwriter. She has created music and sound for over 25 videogames titles, but she is best known as the lead composer and sound designer for the tower defense video game Plants vs. Zombies. She is half-Japanese, and in addition to writing and performing the English version of the ending credits song, "Zombies on Your Lawn", she also wrote and performed the Japanese version, "Uraniwa ni Zombies ga." Shigihara provided vocals for the Singing Sunflower pet in World of Warcraft: Cataclysm. She also participated in Akira Yamaoka's Play For Japan charity album alongside other composers like Nobuo Uematsu and Yasunori Mitsuda.