Yumi Matsutoya

Quick Facts

Full Name	Yumi Matsutoya
Occupation	Singer-Songwriter
Date Of Birth	Jan 19, 1954(1954-01-19)
Age	70
Birthplace	Hachioji
Country	Japan
Birth City	Tokyo
Horoscope	Capricorn

Yumi Matsutoya Biography

Yumi Matsutoya is one of the most popular and richest Singer- Songwriter who was born on January 19, 1954 in Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan. Yumi Arai was conceived in Tokyo in 1954. Three of her siblings and one brother were hers. Her family owned a draper shop called Arai Gofukuten that was established in 1912. As a junior high student, she used go to Chianti, an Italian restaurant that was founded in 1960. Many celebrities frequented the restaurant in those days: Yukio Mishima and Yukio Mishima, Kobo Ade, Seiji Ozawa and Ryu Murakami. Hiroshi Kamayatsu was her first record producer. People who used to be regular customers of Chianti founded Alfa Records, which was her first record label.

Many famous 1970s Japanese singer-songwriters, including Tatsuro Yamashita and Taeko Onuki, performed as backing vocals on her first albums. Yamashita often arranged the chorus of her songs in the 1970s. In her later years, Yamashita criticized her 1980s music career with his song “Queen of Hype Blues”. Matsutoya’s 30-year career has seen her sing duets with many singers, including Takao Kisugi and Toshinobu Kubota.

In April 1972, Arai entered Tama Art University. At the same time, she signed with Alfa as a music artist. At first, she wanted to be a songwriter. However, the founder of the record company, Kunihiko Murai, encouraged her to work as a singer-songwriter.

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.

Sy Chen (shiyuchien) gave her the nickname Yuming, a Chinese bassist who she was obsessed with when she was 13. When she was just 13 years old, she began her musical career. She began her career as a musician at the age of 14. She was a studio musician and also wrote original songs. Her first original song, “Ai wa Totsuzen ni”, was released at 17 years of age. Katsumi Kahashi was the guitarist for the 1960s Japanese rock band The Tigers.

Yumi Matsutoya Net Worth

Yumi Matsutoya is one of the richest Singer-Songwriter from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Yumi Matsutoya 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Yumi Matsutoya, also known as Song Ren Gu You Shi, Matsutoya Yumi (born January 19, 1954), is a Japanese singer-songwriter, lyricist, and pianist. Her unique voice and live performances are well-known and she is a key figure in Japanese pop music.

She produced the singles “Hello, My Friend” (which sold two million copies) and “Haruyo, Koi” (which sold another two million copies). Both singles were used on TV dramas. The former was on Kimi To Ita Natsu while the latter was on NHK’s titled program. This latter song is her most well-known number. These songs were also included in her album The Dancing Sun. It was her second album to reach double-digit million sales. The equity ratio of her record label, which was founded in 1960 by Toshiba Corporation as Toshiba Musical Industries and later renamed Toshiba-EMI in 1973 after Toshiba sold half of it to the British EMI Group, was also changed that year. EMI now holds a 55% stake, while Toshiba owns the remaining 45%.

On July 5, 1972, Arai released her debut single “Henji wa Iranai”. It was produced by Hiroshi “Monsieur” Kamayatsu, the former vocalist of The Spiders. Her first single sold only 300 copies.

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Who is Yumi Matsutoya Dating?

According to our records, Yumi Matsutoya married to Masataka Matsutoya. As of December 1, 2023, Yumi Matsutoya’s is not dating anyone.

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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.

Facts & Trivia

Yumi Ranked on the list of most popular Singer-Songwriter. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Yumi Matsutoya celebrates birthday on January 19 of every year.

The Gates of Heaven and several of her albums in those years reflected an optimistic atmosphere in Japan caused by the asset price bubble around the end of the 1980s and early 1990s. She was often called “Charisma of Youth” or “The Enthusiastic Leader of Love” in those days. After hearing from her record company Toshiba-EMI that single sales were quickly overtaking album sales due to a slowing economy, Matsutoya decided to make a difference. To make people buy the album, she did not release any physical singles at all for about four years in the early 1990s, although she did promote songs from her albums to radio as “album cuts”. Her albums The Gates of Heaven (1990), Dawn Purple (1991) and Tears And Reasons (1992) performed very well on the Oricon charts, boosted partially by airplay. However, in autumn 1993, she released “Manatsu no Yo no Yume”, the first physical single in four years since “Anniversary”, already known as the theme song of the TV drama Dare nimo Ienai. It sold over 1,400,000 copies and became the 89th best-selling single in Japan. It is her most successful single.

What genre is Yumi Matsutoya?

J-Pop

What is Japanese Yuming?

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 …