Yumi Matsutoya Lyrics
松任谷 由実 歌詞
All Songs
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"110°f"
"20 Minutes"
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"a Happy New Year"
Acacia
Age Of Our Innocence
"angel Cryin Xmas"
"autumn Park"
"baby Pink"
Babylon
Benisuzume
Blizzard
Blue Planet
Blue Rain Blue
Bonne Annee
Broken Barricade
Bye Bye Boy
Called Game
Carry On
Choco-language
"corvett 1954"
Cowgirl Blues
Dang Dang
Dasanai Tegami
Dawn Purple
Delphine
Downtown Boy
Escape
Esper
Forgiveness
Futte Ageru
Fuyu No Owari
Get Away
Getsuyoubi
Glory Birdland
Good-bye Friend
Good-bye Goes
Haru Yo Koi
Harujoon Himejoon
Hello My Friend
Hitomi Wa Doshaburi
Holiday In Acapulco
Home Town
"hong Kong Night Sight"
Hozho Goh
Invisible Strings
Issho Ni Kurasou
Josephine
July
Juuni-kai No Koibito
Kanransha
Kirisame De Mienai
Kishuu
Kokoro Hodoite
Kokoro No Mama
Kokuhaku
Late Summer Lake
Lonesome Cowboy
Lost Highway
Love Wars
Lundi
Mabushii Kusayakyuu
Machibuse
Mafuyu No Saafaa
Mahou No Kusuri
Makimodoshite Omoide Wo
Mamotte Agetai
Man In The Moon
Manatsu No Yo No Yume
Many Is The Time
Midnight Run
Midnight Scarecrow
Midnight Train
Mirakuru
Miss Broadcast
"miss Lonely"
Misty China Town
Mizu No Kage
Moonlight Legend
Mou Ai Wa Hajimaranai
Mugen No Naka No Ichido
Night Walker
Niji No Shita No Doshaburi De
Nobody Else
Noo Saido
Northern Lights
Now Is On
Oh Juliet
Painting The Sea
Raga
Rodeo
Ryuusei No Yoru
Saigo No Uso
Saint Of Love
Salaam Mousson Salaam Afrique
Saturday Night Zombies
Save Our Ship
September Blue Moon
Setsugekka
Shiawase Ni Naru Tame Ni
Shizukana Maboroshi
Sign Of The Time
Smile Again
"so High"
"so Long Long Ago"
"song For Bride"
Spinning Wheel
Summer Junction
"summertime"
"sunny Day Holiday"
Sweet Dreams
Sweet Surrender
Taimu Rimitto
Take Me Home
Tawaa Saido Memorii
Todokanai
Toki Wo Kakeru Shoujo
Tropic Of Capricorn
Tsuite Yuku Wa
Tuxedo Rain
Twins
Typhoon
Umi Ni Kite
Uptown
Valentines Radio
Wakiyaku De Ii Kara
Walk On Walk On By
Wanderers
Watashi-rashiku
Weaver Of Love
Wings Of Winter
Woman
Xyzing Xyzing
Yukidayori
Yuuyami Wo Hitori
Yumi Matsutoya (松任谷 由実, Matsutōya Yumi), 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".
She also uses the name Kureta Karuho (呉田軽穂), which is derived from the Swedish film star Greta Garbo, when offering her work to other musicians.
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".
Japanese Name: 松任谷 由実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".
She also uses the name Kureta Karuho (呉田軽穂), which is derived from the Swedish film star Greta Garbo, when offering her work to other musicians.
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".
Birth Name: Yumi Arai
Also Known As: Yumin (ユーミン), Yumi Arai, Karuho Kureta
Born: January 19, 1954 (age 70)
From: Hachiōji, Tokyo, Japan
Genre(s): J-Pop, Pop rock, jazz fusion, folk rock, kayōkyoku, city pop
Instrument(s): Vocals, piano
Occupation(s): Singer, songwriter, radio personality
Active From: 1968-present