Andreas Vollenweider is a Swiss musician, born October 4, 1953 in Zürich, Switzerland. His primary instrument is an electrically modified harp of his own design, but he also plays a wide variety of instruments from around the world.
His music has been categorized as world music, jazz, new age and even classical, two of his albums were number one on the Billboard charts simultaneously in the categories classical, jazz, pop and crossover for more than 11 weeks.