About Keiko Matsui

Keiko Matsui was a child prodigy in her native Japan when, beginning at the age of five, she showed remarkable talent on the piano. She began recording professionally at the age of seventeen, when she composed her first major film score.

Keiko Matsui has a massive international following developed over the course of her recording career that began with the 1987 release of A Drop of Water. She has been named Top Indie Contemporary Jazz Artist of The Year by Billboard and a two-time winner of the National Smooth Jazz Female Artist of the Year Award. Keiko tours extensively all over the world, appearing at festivals, concert halls, and nightclubs.

Visit her website at: www.keikomatsui.com

Her Music

Matsui's music is powerful and introspective, blending both Western and Eastern musical influences. She 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". Matsui sees music as "the great gifts from the human souls from the past, for the children of the future". She believes that music has a power to bring people together and change their lives. "We are connected by music," Matsui wrote, "as the Ocean connects the continents".

A lover of nature, Matsui often makes reference to plants, animals, the elements, and other natural features and phenomena in her song titles. She shows an especial fascination with the moon as a number of her compositions refer to the moon in their titles.

Keiko & A3M

Keiko Matsui has been generous enough to perform at A3M's chartity concert several times in the past decade. Proceeds from Matsui's 2001 mini-CD A Gift of Life went to the our affiliates National Marrow Donor Program and the Marrow Foundation in support of A3M.