Andreas Vollenweider

Andreas Vollenweider is a Swiss harpist. He is generally categorised as a new-age musician and uses a modified electroacoustic harp of his own design. He has worked with Bobby McFerrin, Carly Simon, Luciano Pavarotti and in 1987 received a Grammy Award for the album Down to the Moon. Vollenweider's style has been described by The New York Times as "swirling atmospheric music, which evokes nature, magic and fairy tales".

4 October 1953

Born on the same birth date (4 October 1953): Gil Moore

Born on the same birth day (4 October): A.C. Green • Anita DeFrantz • Charlie Hurley • Francisco de Toledo (Jesuit) • Frederic Remington • H. Rap Brown • Henry III of Castile • Hermann Glauert • Jackie Collins • Karl W. Richter • M. Ward • Mikolas Josef • Rachael Leigh Cook • Richard Cromwell • Richard Rorty • Robert Bellarmine • Terence Conran

Born in the same month (October 1953): David Threlfall • Keith Green • Keith Hernandez • Larry Miller (comedian) • Miguel Lopez (soccer, born 1953) • Peter Phillips (conductor) • Philip Hampton • Robert Saxton