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. Other famous songs include 'Haru-yo, Koi' and 'Sweet, Bitter Sweet'. 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. In 1975, Arai became known as a composer for ' Ichigo Hakusho wo Mou Ichido', a commercially successful song recorded by the folk duo BanBan. During her early career, she worked under her birth name Yumi Arai ( 荒井由実, Arai Yumi ). Īfter gaining several years of experience as a session musician, she debuted as a singer-songwriter in 1972. She is the only artist to have at least one number-one album every year on the Oricon charts for 18 consecutive years. 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.

Her recording career has been commercially successful with more than 42 million records sold. 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. 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. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.You should also add the template to the talk page.A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Japanese Wikipedia article at ] see its history for attribution. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation.If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality.Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 3,501 articles in the main category, and specifying |topic= will aid in categorization.Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.View a machine-translated version of the Japanese article.

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