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This page introduces Yumi Matsutoya to the world, please visit her official homepage and listen to her music. She is just great!!!
She was born to a rich dry store owner and become intimate with music at ayoung age. She graduated from Tama University of the Arts where she studied music, and began to walk the way of music.
She debuted as a singer with a first her album "Hikokigumo" in 1973. Since then, she has made many albums, "Yuming Brand," "Pearl Pierce," "No-side," "Da Di Da," "Delight Slight Light Kiss," "Love Wars," "Heaven's Door," "Dawn Purple," and so on.
She married Matsutoya Masataka who had arranged her album in 1976.
She is a pioneer having opened up a new world of music by rich musical, witty songs. Her fans especially enjoy her bright stage settings and costumes which she is famous for. Since the Japanese era changed from Showa to Heisei in 1989, the total number of albums which she had sold in each succcesive year has been over two million . She acquired many prizes.
Here are some her prizes:
Japan Gold disc Grandprize "Diamond Dust-ga-Kienu Mamani", 1988
"The Door of Heaven", 1991
She also writes and composes her songs, and she is active as the songwriter under the name "Kureta Karuho."
A: The best Japanese singer/songwriter, that's who. Matsutouya Yumi, nickname Yuming, is a veteran of Jpop, made her debut in 1973. She writes practically all of her songs herself, both lyrics and music. She produces an album about once a year.
A: She has a voice like cool cherry yoghourt, rich but not greasy, with a lot of sweetness complemented by a certain acidity and dominated by a strong characteristic flavour. It has the forced, slightly nasal character which is one way for Japanese singers to sound. There's none of the high pitched, overly cute Lolita-ishness which is the other mainstream of female Jpop.
A: Hey, take it easy, boys. She's not a major babe. Not even a minor babe. Actually she's no great beauty. She's not the kind of singer you adore because of her looks. Rather the kind you adore because of her music. She likes to dress up, and hardly two of the photos on her CD covers and in the CD booklets look like they were of the same person.
A: My Japanese is not really good enough to entitle me to an opinion on that. You'll have to wait for my Japanese to get better or ask a Japanese friend.
A: Simple tunes. The kind that, once you've heard them a couple of times, you think you've known them since your childhood. Some of them are a little bit jazzy, but not so much that it could offend anyone. They all have the property that they head rigth for the G spot in your ears, drill through it and start eating your brain. (This may sound like something from The X Files or Dark Skies, but actually it's a wonderful feeling and once it's happened to you you'll understand, you'll be one of us, you won't want to resist anymore...)
 Download Real Audio Sample of Yumi Matsutoya's song Rondo |