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He studied piano at the San Francisco Conservatory.
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Raphael Sharpe
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Raphael (born 1948) is a United States musician and composer of ambient music Raised by Benedictine nuns, when his family got ill, he learned classical music and Gregorian chant. In 1967, he participated at the San Francisco Summer of Love, masquerading as a velvet-caped European count playing gypsy style violin.
There he started pursuing music as a therapy, mixing world rhythms and western music
In 1988 he released "Music To Disappear In" which sold over 500,000 copies. In 1992, he founded Kahua Records, the label of his latest works.
Raphael"s work are all published under his sole first name. Some websites refer to him as Raphael Decosterd (or Décosterd) but it seems to be his Swiss-born wife"s last name.
The Kahua Institute"s website refers to him as Sharpe.
