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5 unusual facts about Yumi Matsutoya


A Ballads

The final track, "Sotsugyou shashin" was originally by Yumi Matsutoya, and it was the first cover that Ayumi Hamasaki did on an album.

Ai Shimizu

She covered Yumi Matsutoya's "Toki o Kakeru Shōjo" as the B-side of her first single "Angel Fish" in 2003.

Mayumi Itsuwa

Owing to her introspective compositions, Itsuwa was often nicknamed "Japanese Carole King", along with other Japanese singer-songwriters like Yumi Matsutoya (who had worked under her birth name "Yumi Arai" during the mid-1970s) and Minako Yoshida.

Mitsuo Shindō

Shindō has designed over 1,000 album and single cover arts for artists including Yumi Matsutoya, Pizzicato Five, Mr. Children, Misia, Hikaru Utada and Glay.

Yokohama Arena

1–4 April 1989: The first events on Yokohama Arena "Delight Slight Light KISS Yokohama Arena opening celebration concert" by Yumi Matsutoya as additional dates of her concert tour "Delight Slight Light KISS Tour".



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