Keiko Abe

Keiko Abe is a Japanese composer and marimba player. She has been a primary figure in the development of the marimba, in terms of expanding both technique and repertoire, and through her collaboration with the Yamaha Corporation, developed the modern five-octave concert marimba.

18 April 1937

Born on the same birth date (18 April 1937): Jan Kaplický

Born on the same birth day (18 April): Clarence Darrow • Eric Roberts • Glen Hardin • Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić • Jeff Dunham • Leopold Berchtold • Miguel Cabrera • Peter Hordern • Richard Harding Davis • Tony Mottola

Born in the same month (April 1937): Charlie Thomas (musician) • Colin Powell • Jack Nitzsche • Jill Gascoine • John White (footballer, born 1937) • Merle Haggard • Robin Eames • Sandy Dennis • Sid and Marty Krofft • Simon Brown, Baron Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood • Victoria Glendinning