1. Keiko Matsui is a Japanese keyboardist and composer, specializing in smooth jazz and New-age music.
12 Facts About Keiko Matsui
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Keiko Matsui studied children's culture at Japan Women's University, then studied at the Yamaha Music Foundation.
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Keiko Matsui started the band Cosmos, which recorded four albums.
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Keiko Matsui recorded her debut solo album, A Drop of Water, with her husband Kazu Matsui.
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Keiko Matsui signed with MCA and released the albums No Borders and Under Northern Lights.
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Keiko Matsui produced her album The Road and recorded it with Richard Bona, Vinnie Colaiuta, Jackiem Joyner, and Kirk Whalum.
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Keiko Matsui worked with Bob James on an album during the same year.
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Keiko Matsui has a very spiritual view of composing music, feeling out each composition as though it were, in her words, "coming to me from another space, another dimension," and "catching notes from the silence and then simply placing them together".
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Keiko Matsui sees music as "the great gifts from the human souls from the past, for the children of the future".
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Keiko Matsui believes that music has a power to bring people together and change their lives.
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Keiko Matsui performed at an ice skating event in 1997 to support the Susan G Komen for the Cure.
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Keiko Matsui performed at the United Nations Headquarters building in New York City on December 17,2003, to benefit the program.