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Yumi Matsutoya (松任谷 由実, Matsutōya Yumi, born January 19, 1954), nicknamed Yuming (ユーミン, Yūmin), is a Japanese singer, composer, lyricist and pianist. Generally the writer of both the lyrics and the music in her songs, she is renowned for her idiosyncratic voice and live performances, and is one of the most prominent figures in the history of Japanese popular music.Her recording career has been commercially successful with more than 42 million records sold. In 1990, her album The Gates of Heaven became the first album to be certified "2x million" by the RIAJ, and she has had twenty-one No. 1 albums listed on the Oricon charts. She is the only artist to have at least one number-one album every year on the Oricon charts for 18 consecutive years.After gaining several years of experience as a session musician, she debuted as a singer-songwriter in 1972. During her early career, she worked under her birth name Yumi Arai (荒井 由実, Arai Yumi). In 1975, Arai became known as a composer for "Ichigo Hakusho wo Mou Ichido", a commercially successful song recorded by the folk duo BanBan. She also gained popularity as a vocalist in the same year through the success of "Ano Hi ni Kaeritai", which became her first number-one hit on Japan's Oricon Charts. Other famous songs include "Haru-yo, Koi" and "Sweet, Bitter Sweet". In The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Japanese Culture, it is written that "Yuming incorporated influences from progressive rock and European pop to produce a sophisticated, upper-middle-class female Japanese voice and sound in a contemporary musical and journalistic world dominated by discussions of folk music and social critique. This musical idiom is generally thought to have been first realised on [...] Cobalt Hour". The album The 14th Moon and the three albums that ranked in the top 10 of the Japanese charts in 1976 (Cobalt Hour, Yuming Brand, and Hikōki-gumo) "contained several songs which are considered to be early classics of the J-pop genre."After marrying her musical collaborator Masataka Matsutoya in 1976, Arai began recording under her married name and has continued to do so. Throughout the 1980s, Matsutoya's music was prominently featured in advertisements for Mitsubishi Motors in her native Japan and her image was used to promote their vehicles. In addition to multiple hit singles, she has obtained enormous commercial success on the Japanese Albums Chart, particularly during the late 1980s and the first half of the 1990s. The magazine Shūkan Gendai ranked Matsutoya third (behind only Miyuki Nakajima and Masayoshi Son) in a list of the smartest Japanese figures that was determined based on the criteria of "intelligence, determination, sensibility and capability".
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110°F | Unknown Album | 3:58 |
12階のこいびと | Unknown Album | 4:44 |
1920 | Unknown Album | 4:47 |
20 Minutes | Unknown Album | 3:28 |
2人のストリート | Unknown Album | 4:47 |
3-Dのクリスマスカード | Unknown Album | 3:32 |
5cmの向う岸 | Unknown Album | 6:19 |
7 Truths 7 Lies ~ヴァージンロードの彼方で~ | Unknown Album | 4:48 |
78 | Unknown Album | 5:00 |
8月の日時計 | Unknown Album | 4:44 |
9月には帰らない | Unknown Album | 4:55 |
A Happy New Year | Unknown Album | 3:43 |
Acacia [アカシア] | Unknown Album | 4:14 |
Age Of Our Innocence | Unknown Album | 6:06 |
Autumn Park | Unknown Album | 5:00 |
Babies Are Popstars | Unknown Album | 3:42 |
Blue Planet | Unknown Album | 4:03 |
Blue Rain Blue | Unknown Album | 5:10 |
Bonne année | Unknown Album | 4:11 |
Bueno Adios | Unknown Album | 4:06 |
Call Me Back | Unknown Album | 3:46 |
Called Game | Unknown Album | 4:05 |
Choco-Language | Unknown Album | 4:01 |
Corvett 1954 | Unknown Album | 3:58 |
Dang Dang | Neue Musik Yumi Mutsitoya Complete Best, Vol. 1 1998 | |
Dang Dang | Unknown Album | 5:30 |
Dangerous Tonight | Unknown Album | 3:46 |
Destiny | Neue Musik Yumi Mutsitoya Complete Best, Vol. 1 1998 | 4:38 |
Destiny | Unknown Album | |
Discothèque | Unknown Album | 4:21 |
Early Springtime | Unknown Album | 4:39 |
Escape | Unknown Album | 4:10 |
Esper | Unknown Album | 4:10 |
Flying Messenger | Unknown Album | 3:39 |
Forgiveness | Unknown Album | 4:40 |
Get Away | Unknown Album | 4:31 |
Glory Birdland | Unknown Album | 4:50 |
Good! Morning | Unknown Album | 2:31 |
Grey | Unknown Album | 3:48 |
Happy Birthday to You~ヴィーナスの誕生 | Unknown Album | 5:07 |
Hey girl! 近くても | Unknown Album | 3:51 |
Holiday In Acapulco | Unknown Album | 4:34 |
Hong Kong Night Sight | Unknown Album | 6:18 |
Invisible Strings | Unknown Album | 5:07 |
Josephine | Unknown Album | 3:45 |
Judas Kiss | Unknown Album | 4:43 |
Kissin' Christmas (クリスマスだからじゃない) 2023 | Unknown Album | 7:02 |
LAUNDRY-GATEの想い出 | Unknown Album | 5:29 |
Late Summer Lake | Unknown Album | 4:22 |
Laughter | Unknown Album | 4:42 |
Lost Highway | Unknown Album | 5:20 |
Man In The Moon | Unknown Album | |
Many Is the Time | Unknown Album | 4:14 |
Midnight Run | Unknown Album | 5:29 |
Midnight Train | Unknown Album | 4:46 |
Miss Lonely | Unknown Album | 4:28 |
Moonlight Legend | Unknown Album | 4:20 |
NIKE ~ The goddess of victory | Unknown Album | 4:34 |
Northern Lights | Unknown Album | 5:20 |
Now Is On | Unknown Album | 4:34 |
Partnership | Unknown Album | 3:19 |
Reborn ~ 太陽よ止まって | Unknown Album | 3:25 |
Reincarnation | Unknown Album | 5:42 |
Rodeo | Unknown Album | 5:11 |
Rāga#3 | Unknown Album | 5:18 |
SHANGRILAをめざせ | Unknown Album | 4:22 |
Salaam Mousson Salaam Afrique | Unknown Album | 5:35 |
Saturday Night Zombies | Unknown Album | 5:21 |
September Blue Moon | Unknown Album | 4:22 |
Sillage~シアージュ | Unknown Album | 4:08 |
Smile Again [Yuming Version] | Unknown Album | 5:02 |
Smile for Me | Unknown Album | 4:37 |
So Long Long Ago | Unknown Album | 5:13 |
Song For Bride | Unknown Album | |
Spinning Wheel | Unknown Album | 3:24 |
Sugar Townはさよならの町 | Unknown Album | 5:35 |
Summer Junction | Unknown Album | 3:53 |
Summertime | Unknown Album | 3:57 |
Sunny Day Holiday | Unknown Album | 5:00 |
Sweet Surrender | Unknown Album | 3:46 |
Tranquilizer | Love Wars 1989 | 3:29 |
Tropic Of Capricorn | Unknown Album | 4:37 |
Twins | Unknown Album | 3:53 |
Typhoon | Unknown Album | 4:51 |
Uptownは灯ともし頃 | Unknown Album | 4:06 |
Voyager~日付のない墓標 | Unknown Album | |
What to do ? waa woo | Unknown Album | 2:56 |
Wings of Winter | Unknown Album | 3:48 |
Woman | Unknown Album | 4:03 |
Your Eyes Are Magic ~ 終止符をおしえて | Unknown Album | 4:40 |
あなたに届くように | Unknown Album | |
あなたに届くように [Album Version] | Unknown Album | 4:05 |
あの日にかえりたい | Unknown Album | 3:40 |
ありのままを抱きしめて | Unknown Album | 4:38 |
かんらん車 | Unknown Album | 5:45 |
きみなき世界 | Unknown Album | 5:26 |
さまよいの果て波は寄せる | Unknown Album | 6:26 |
さよならハリケーン | Unknown Album | 4:26 |
ずっとそばに | Unknown Album | 4:26 |
ただわけもなく | Unknown Album | 4:48 |
ひまわりがある風景 | Unknown Album | 4:43 |
もうここには何もない | Unknown Album | 4:38 |
もう愛は始まらない | Unknown Album | 4:46 |
ようこそ輝く時間へ | Unknown Album | 4:39 |
よそゆき顔で | Unknown Album | 4:26 |
りんごのにおいと風の国 | Unknown Album | 6:19 |
わき役でいいから | Unknown Album | 4:29 |
ガールフレンズ | Unknown Album | 3:59 |
グループ | Unknown Album | 4:30 |
グレイス・スリックの肖像 | Unknown Album | |
コインの裏側 | Unknown Album | 5:03 |
サンド キャッスル | Unknown Album | 4:54 |
ジェラシーと云う名の悪夢 | Unknown Album | 4:30 |
スラバヤ通りの妹へ | Unknown Album | 4:39 |
セイレーン | Unknown Album | 5:04 |
セシルの週末 | Unknown Album | 5:27 |
タワー・サイド・メモリー | Unknown Album | 3:06 |
ダイアモンドの街角 | Unknown Album | 4:39 |
ダイアモンドダストが消えぬまに | Unknown Album | 4:38 |
ツバメのように | Unknown Album | 5:06 |
ノートルダム | Unknown Album | 4:56 |
ハルジョオン・ヒメジョオン | Unknown Album | 3:57 |
ハートはもうつぶやかない | Unknown Album | 4:57 |
ハートブレイク | Unknown Album | 4:07 |
バトンリレー | Unknown Album | 4:04 |
パジャマにレインコート | Unknown Album | 4:23 |
パーティーへ行こう | Unknown Album | 3:51 |
ビュッフェにて | Unknown Album | |
フォーカス | Unknown Album | 5:17 |
ホタルと流れ星 | Unknown Album | 4:13 |
ホライズンを追いかけて ~L'aventure Au Desert~ | Unknown Album | 4:02 |
ミラクル | Unknown Album | 4:41 |
メトロポリスの片隅で | Unknown Album | 4:14 |
ランチタイムが終わる頃 | Unknown Album | 3:59 |
リアリティ | Unknown Album | 4:17 |
ロッヂで待つクリスマス | Unknown Album | 4:05 |
ワゴンに乗ってでかけよう | Unknown Album | 4:44 |
一緒に暮らそう | Unknown Album | 3:30 |
不思議な体験 | Unknown Album | |
丘の上の光 | Unknown Album | 6:04 |
中央フリーウェイ | Unknown Album | |
人生ほど素敵なショーはない | Unknown Album | 4:42 |
人魚になりたい | Unknown Album | 4:42 |
人魚姫の夢 | Unknown Album | 6:17 |
今すぐレイチェル | Unknown Album | 3:50 |
今だけを きみだけを | Unknown Album | 3:43 |
入江の午後3時 | Unknown Album | 3:50 |
出さない手紙 | Unknown Album | 4:11 |
別れのビギン | Unknown Album | 4:31 |
午前4時の電話 | Unknown Album | 4:08 |
君(と僕)のBIRTHDAY | Unknown Album | 4:14 |
告白 | Unknown Album | 5:13 |
哀しみのルート16 | Unknown Album | 3:09 |
哀しみをください | Unknown Album | 3:58 |
土曜日は大キライ | Unknown Album | 3:23 |
地中海の感傷 | Unknown Album | 3:51 |
夕闇をひとり | Unknown Album | |
夜明けの雲 | Unknown Album | 4:08 |
夜空でつながっている | Unknown Album | 4:23 |
夢の中で ~We Are Not Alone, Forever~ | Unknown Album | 4:37 |
天国のドア | Unknown Album | 4:01 |
太陽と黒いバラ | Unknown Album | 3:42 |
太陽の逃亡者 | Unknown Album | 4:27 |
宇宙図書館 | Unknown Album | 4:04 |
守ってあげたい | Unknown Album | 4:55 |
巻き戻して思い出を | Unknown Album | 4:47 |
帰愁 | Unknown Album | 4:14 |
影になって | Unknown Album | |
彼から手をひいて | Unknown Album | 4:14 |
心のまま | Unknown Album | 4:44 |
心ほどいて | Unknown Album | 4:30 |
忘れかけたあなたへのメリークリスマス | Unknown Album | 4:18 |
忘れないでね | Unknown Album | 4:17 |
思い出に間にあいたくて | Unknown Album | 4:05 |
恋の苦さとため息と | Unknown Album | 4:56 |
恋は死んでしまった | Unknown Album | 4:42 |
恋をリリース | Unknown Album | 3:53 |
恋人がサンタクロース | Unknown Album | 5:05 |
悲しいほどお天気 | Unknown Album | 4:52 |
情熱に届かない~Don't Let Me Go | Unknown Album | 4:40 |
愛と遠い日の未来へ [Album Version] | Unknown Album | 3:51 |
手のひらの東京タワー | Unknown Album | |
散りてなお | Unknown Album | 4:29 |
昔の彼に会うのなら | Unknown Album | 3:39 |
星になったふたり | Unknown Album | 4:18 |
星のルージュリアン | Unknown Album | 3:43 |
星空の誘惑 | Unknown Album | 4:48 |
春よ、来い [Nina Kraviz Remix] | Unknown Album | 5:31 |
時のないホテル | Unknown Album | 4:15 |
時のカンツォーネ | Unknown Album | 3:57 |
時空のダンス | Unknown Album | 4:23 |
月夜のロケット花火 | Unknown Album | 4:48 |
月曜日のロボット | Unknown Album | 4:31 |
木枯らしのダイアリー | Unknown Album | 5:05 |
未来は霧の中に | Unknown Album | 3:00 |
残火 | Unknown Album | 4:30 |
気ままな朝帰り | Unknown Album | 3:20 |
水平線にグレナディン | Unknown Album | 4:34 |
水槽のJellyfish | Unknown Album | 5:06 |
流星の夜 | Unknown Album | 5:01 |
海に来て | Unknown Album | |
消灯飛行 | Unknown Album | 4:04 |
深海の街 | Unknown Album | 4:23 |
潮風にちぎれて | Unknown Album | |
灯りをさがして | Unknown Album | 5:31 |
灼けたアイドル | Unknown Album | 5:04 |
無限の中の一度 | Unknown Album | 4:34 |
白い服、白い靴 | Unknown Album | 3:47 |
真冬のサーファー | Unknown Album | 3:43 |
真珠のピアス | Unknown Album | 5:44 |
知らないどうし | Unknown Album | 3:49 |
破れた恋の繕し方教えます | Unknown Album | 4:39 |
私のロンサム・タウン | Unknown Album | 4:09 |
私を忘れる頃 | Unknown Album | 4:59 |
稲妻の少女 | Unknown Album | 3:25 |
紅雀 | Unknown Album | 3:32 |
経る時 | Unknown Album | 4:15 |
結婚ルーレット | Unknown Album | 4:18 |
結婚式をブッ飛ばせ | Unknown Album | 4:32 |
続 ガールフレンズ | Unknown Album | 3:55 |
緑の町に舞い降りて | Unknown Album | 4:41 |
罪と罰 | Unknown Album | 4:26 |
自由への翼 | Unknown Album | 4:35 |
虹の下のどしゃ降りで | Unknown Album | 4:04 |
街角のペシミスト | Unknown Album | 4:43 |
輪舞曲 | Unknown Album | 4:39 |
輪舞曲(ロンド) | Unknown Album | 4:12 |
雨に消えたジョガー | Unknown Album | 5:00 |
雨に願いを | Unknown Album | 3:36 |
雪月花 | Unknown Album | 4:50 |
霧の中の影 | Unknown Album | 5:48 |
霧雨で見えない | Unknown Album | 5:02 |
静かなまぼろし | Unknown Album | 3:45 |
魔法のくすり | Unknown Album | 3:58 |
黄色いロールスロイス | Unknown Album | 3:27 |
~ノーサイド・夏~空耳のホイッスル | Unknown Album | 4:20 |
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