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Keiko Matsui - Falcon's Wing k~kat jazz café The Smoothjazz Loft

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Keiko Matsui (松居慶子), born in Tokyo, Japan as Keiko Doi, is a Japanese smooth jazz/jazz fusion/new age/ keyboardist and composer whose career spans three decades, during which time she has released twenty CDs (in addition to various compilations) and has received international acclaim. She resides in Los Angeles, California. Doi studied music at the Yamaha Music Foundation and as a top student in the Yamaha System and was selected at the age of seventeen to be a recording artist for them. At age 19, Yamaha sent Doi to America to record an album, and there she met Kazu Matsui, who had been selected as a producer for the project. In 1987 Matsui recorded her solo debut LP A Drop of Water, The album's title, the name of a song by Carl Anderson, was in memory of those who had died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster the year before. Its success led to a record deal with MCA Records.

challenger disaster

Keiko Matsui - Falcon's Wing *k~kat jazz café* The Smoothjazz Loft

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Keiko Matsui - Falcon's Wing k~kat jazz café The Smoothjazz Loft