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Keiko Matsui
Kickstarting her career by spending money saved up for her honeymoon on
recording her first solo album, Keiko Matsui has become an international star
renowned for fusing together traditional Japanese music with jazz, classical and
soul melodies into moving ambient compositions.
Growing up in Tokyo, she started playing piano at the age of five and studied
classical greats like Sergei Rachmaninov and Jean Sibelius while at the Yamaha
Music School and formed an interest in acts as diverse as Stevie Wonder, Maurice
Jarre and Chick Corea. She cut her teeth playing with local avant-...
