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💕Yumi Arai Roleplay account💕
Scenario (EN): Yumi was informed about Tumblr by a fan in a grocery store, so she joins due to her interest peaking in the site💕
Scenario (JP): ユミ は、小売店のファンからTumblrについて知られていたので、彼女はサイトへの興味のピークのために彼女に加わります💕
💕 Warnings!💕
Age warning (En): Please be 15+ to interact with this account, due to the mature themes this account will use (Smoking, Drinking, Ect)
Age warning (Jp): このアカウントでコミュニケーションするには15歳以上になることをお勧めします。 (Smoking, Drinking, Ect)
Genuine Warning (En): I am Not Miss Yuming, I am just a fan from the us, I don't know how to speak English I am using a accurate japanese Translator until I learn Japanese myself.
Genuine Warning (Jp): 俺はミス・ユミンじゃない 私はアメリカからのファンで、私は英語を話す方法を知らない私は私が日本語を自分で学ぶまで正確な日本語翻訳機を使用しています。
Harassment/Not Interested (EN): If you aren't a fan of the account just block it, no one really gives a damn harassing is for weaklings anyways so don't harass this account or any other Musician Roleplay because they put lots of work and energy into making their account and don't need some annoying pricks ruining the fun.
Harassment/Not Interested (JP): あなたがアカウントのファンでない場合は、それをブロックするだけで、誰���本当に悪魔の嫌がらせを与えることは、いずれにせよ弱い人々のためにありますので、彼らは彼らの口座を作成するために多くの仕事とエネルギーを投入し、楽しみを台無しにいくつかのイライラするピックを必要としません。
💕Solo Career💕
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. 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".
💕Information On Yumi Arai💕
Early years
Yumi Arai was born in 1954 in Hachiōji, Tokyo. She had three brothers and one sister, and her family ran a draper shop called Arai Gofukuten, established in 1912. When she was a junior high school student, she used to go to an Italian restaurant called Chianti, which had opened in 1960. In those days, many celebrities went to the restaurant; Akira Kurosawa, Yukio Mishima, Kōbō Abe, Seiji Ozawa, Ryu Murakami, Taro Okamoto, Kishin Shinoyama, and Hiroshi "Monsieur" Kamayatsu, who eventually became her first record producer.
Alfa Music, the publishing company to which she belonged early her in career (later to become a full-fledged record label in 1977), was founded by people who were regular customers at Chianti.
Her nickname "Yuming" was given to her by Sy Chen (シー・ユー・チェン), a Chinese bassist she had a crush on when she was 13 years old. She began her music career when she was still young. At the age of 14, she worked as a musician for the first time. Having worked as a studio musician, she also wrote many original songs. When she was 17 years old, her first original song titled "Ai wa Totsuzen ni" was released. It was sung by Katsumi Kahashi, the former guitarist of the influential 1960s Japanese band The Tigers.
In April 1972, Arai entered Tama Art University. At the same time, she signed with then-publishing company Alfa as a music artist. At first, she wanted to be a songwriter. However, the founder of the publishing company, Kunihiko Murai, encouraged her to work as a singer-songwriter.
Early career; works as Yumi Arai
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. Released by Toshiba EMI, the label to which she would be affiliated and release all her albums throughout her career, under its Liberty sublabel (with Alfa acting as publishing company), her first single sold only 300 copies. (It would later feature in re-recorded form on her debut LP, Hikō-ki Gumo.)
She recorded her first full album, Hikō-ki Gumo, with the band Caramel Mama, better known as Tin Pan Alley, which consisted of Haruomi Hosono, Shigeru Suzuki, Tateo Hayashi and Masataka Matsutoya, and it was released by Toshiba EMI under its Express sublabel in November 1973; the title track (and lead-off track) was later used as the theme song for the movie The Wind Rises (2013). For her next album, MISSLIM, (1974), Masataka Matsutoya, who was the keyboardist of Tin Pan Alley, arranged all of her songs. Her third studio album, Cobalt Hour (1975), features her early famous song "Sotsugyō Shashin". The same year, it was covered by the chorus group Hi-Fi Set (who also performed on the original song) on their first album with the same name. That cover version also succeeded as a single. In later years, it was covered by many Japanese artists and became one of Japan's classic pop songs. The same year, the male folk duo BanBan recorded her song "Ichigo Hakusho o Mou Ichido" and reached number one on the Oricon chart. Because of the commercial success of other artists, she became famous as a songwriter.
Yumi achieved moderate success with her fifth single, Rouge no Dengon ("Rouge Message"), an up-tempo song considered to be a proto J-Pop classic. She gained a television appearance singing this song with the top Japanese girl group of the time, Candies, and the song has been covered by a number of artists over the years.
Her first top hit as a singer-songwriter was her sixth single "Ano Hi ni Kaeritai". In August 1975, it was used as the theme song for the TBS TV drama Katei no Himitsu. Two months later, it was released as a single and reached the top of the Oricon chart. The 14th Moon (1976), her final album as Yumi Arai, featured Leland Sklar on bass and Mike Baird on drums. Since this album, Masataka Matsutoya has produced all her albums himself. She considers her nickname "Yuming" to also mean the name of the union with her husband. Following the success with "Ano Hi ni Kaeritai", it became her first album to reach number one on the Oricon chart. Besides, in the end of the year chart in 1976, three of her albums (Cobalt Hour, Yuming Brand, and Hikō-ki Gumo) ranked in the top 10.
Four years after her debut, she dominated the Japanese album charts. This astonishing record has never been broken by anyone since.
In 1989, her fifth single, "Rouge no Dengon" (from her third album), and third single, "Yasashisa ni Tsutsumaretanara" (the version used was from her second album), were featured as the theme songs of the film Kiki's Delivery Service. Nowadays, those tunes are known as her early notable songs.
Some of her songs were deeply influenced by many American and European musicians, such as Joni Mitchell and Carole King. As a pioneering singer-songwriter who mixed Western culture and Japanese pop, she left a strong impression on Japanese popular music.
Works as Yumi Matsutoya
After marrying Masataka Matsutoya on November 29, 1976, she had considered retirement. But eventually she decided to continue to work as a musician, performing under her married name. In 1978, her memorable first album as Yumi Matsutoya, entitled Benisuzume was released. In the late 1970s and early 80s, she released two albums every year. However, those albums were less successful than the ones she released when she was single. Nevertheless, she wrote several of her well-known songs during those years, and her albums reached the top 10 on the Oricon chart.
Before the release of Benisuzume, a compilation named Album was released by Toshiba EMI. It mainly contained songs she had released as Yumi Arai, and two songs released as singles only. Matsutoya didn't want to release this compilation; in her autobiography released in 1982, she writes about this album and calls it "The biggest stain on my music career."
Because of this, she never allowed the release of another compilation album until 1998. However, her ex-record-label-and-publishing-company Alfa Records had, after 1977 (when Alfa finally established itself as an independent record label), released many compilations which consisted of her old tunes without her permission. Hence, in the late 1990s, she bought the copyrights of all her songs that she had written under her maiden name; helping in this decision was the fact that Toshiba EMI had by then regained control, in 1994, of the Alfa catalogue, including the albums released by Toshiba EMI while Alfa was still a publishing company, thus her early catalogue being spared of Alfa's 2001 sale to Sony after Alfa faced financial difficulties.
Her tenth album, Surf and Snow (1980), changed the negative tide for her. When the album was released, it did not sell as well as others had previously. However, in 1986, "Koibito ga Santa Claus" became popular as the theme song for the hit movie ''Take Me out to the Snowland [jp] (私をスキーに連れてって, Watashi wo Ski ni Tsuretette.) (1987). The album eventually sold over 400,000 copies. In 1981, she returned to the top of Japanese pop music. Her husband wrote the score for the movie Nerawareta Gakuen, which was directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi and distributed by Kadokawa Pictures. She wrote "Mamotte Agetai" as the theme song for the movie. The single of this song reached number two on Oricon and sold nearly 700,000 copies. Following the success of the single, her eleventh album Sakuban Oaishimasho (1981) became her second number one album. From that year through 1997, 17 consecutive studio albums she released reached number one on the Oricon charts.
Ian Martin of The Japan Times wrote in 2016, "At the same time she was contributing to Matsuda's record-breaking run of No. 1 hit singles, Matsutoya’s own work retained an almost militant focus on albums, and the balance she struck between commercial success and artistic integrity is a source of inspiration to many aspiring musicians."
In 1982, she published an autobiography, Rouge no Dengon. In this book, she wrote about her life in an exaggerated style. She contemplated doing the artwork on her own albums. The artwork of the album Sakuban Oaishimasho (1981) was designed by Hipgnosis, and the video Compartment was produced by Storm Thorgerson, Aubrey Powell and Peter Christopherson. A logo design from the latter film also became the logo of "Yuming", and was used as the cover of the 1984 album No Side. Aubrey Powell and Richard Evans of Hipgnosis also designed the cover of the 1983 album "Voyager". Since the 1970s, she has also been famous as an artist who performs in concerts using gorgeous and novel sets. She used elaborate visual technology on the stage and it is said that they cost over a hundred million yen. She has released two live albums and several videos. In 1986, she released her first live album, Yuming Visualive DA-DI-DA,. It was released on CD and cassette tape only, and it became one of the rarest items among her fans for many years
💕Discography💕
Hikō-ki Gumo (1973) (credited to "Yumi Arai")
Misslim (1974) (credited to "Yumi Arai")
Cobalt Hour (1975) (credited to "Yumi Arai")
14-banme no Tsuki (The 14th Moon) (1976) (credited to "Yumi Arai")
Benisuzume (1978)
Ryūsenkei '80 (1978)
Olive (1979)
Kanashii Hodo Otenki (The Gallery in My Heart) (1979)
Toki no Nai Hotel (1980)
Surf and Snow Volume One (1980)
Mizu no Naka no Asia e (1981)
Sakuban Oaishimashō (1981)
Pearl Pierce (1982)
Reincarnation (1983)
Voyager (1983)
No Side (1984)
Da-Di-Da (1985)
Alarm à la mode (1986)
Diamond Dust ga Kienumani (Before the Diamond Dust Fades...) (1987)
Delight Slight Light Kiss (1988)
Love Wars (1989)
Tengoku no Door (The Gates of Heaven) (1990)
Dawn Purple (1991)
Tears and Reasons (1992)
U-miz (1993)
The Dancing Sun (1994)
Kathmandu (1995)
Cowgirl Dreamin' (1997)
Suyua no Nami (The Wave of Zuvuya) (1997)
Frozen Roses (1999)
Acacia (2001)
Wings of Winter, Shades of Summer (2002)
Yuming Compositions: Faces (2003)
Viva! 6×7 (2004)
A Girl in Summer (2006)
Soshite Mouichido Yumemiru Darou (And I Will Dream Again...) (2009)
Road Show (2011)
Pop Classico (2013)
Uchū Toshokan (Universal Library) (2016)
Shinkai no Machi (2020)
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ルージュの伝言 (Rouge no Dengon) by Yumi Arai / 荒井由実
Album: Cobalt Hour Year: 1975 Label: Alfa Records Lyrics & Music: Yumi Arai / 荒井由実
#japanese new music#yumi arai#1975#alfa records#yuming#yumi matsutoya#70s singer-songwriter music#subcategory: pop/soft-rock#admin fave#tip of the new music iceberg#荒井由実#Spotify
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Cobalt Hour by Yumi Arai is such a great album I love it so much thank you Kiki's Delivery Service and Suzume for putting it on my radar
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スカイレストラン (Sky Restaurant) by Yumi Seino / 清野由美
Album: Natural Woman Year: 1981 Label: Columbia (Blow Up sublabel) Lyrics: Yumi Arai / 荒井由実 Music: Kunihiko Murai / 村井邦彦
#city pop#yumi seino#1981#columbia records#yumi arai#yuming#yumi matsutoya#kunihiko murai#80s city pop#subcategory: aor/soft-rock#tip of the city pop iceberg#清野由美#Youtube
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An afternoon watching the sea (Yumi Arai) J-pop
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Yumi Arai (Yumi Matsutoya) has a somewhat earthy voice, and that characteristic is obvious when you compare it with a hi-fi set that covers her songs. This song is an anomaly, remarkably smelling of urban concrete rather than dirt. Let's call it a masterpiece. She was a standard-bearer of so-called Japanese new music, and she disliked the earthiness and tackiness of conventional folk songs, but her singing voice, as mentioned above, has an earthiness, which is contradictory and interesting in a way.
海を見ていた午後(荒井由実)J-pop
荒井由実(松任谷由実)の歌声には、どことなく土臭さがあり、その特徴は、彼女の曲をカバーしたハイファイセットと聴き比べると一目瞭然だが、この曲は例外的で、土ではなく、都会のコンクリートの匂いが顕著だ。名曲と言えよう。いわゆる日本のニューミュージックの旗手だった彼女は、従来のフォークソングの土臭さ、ダサさを嫌ったが、彼女の歌声には、上に述べたように土臭さがあるのは矛盾で、ある意味面白い。
#An afternoon watching the sea#Yumi Arai#J-pop#Babylman#earthy voice#urban#new music#folk songs#Youtube
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Artist - 荒井由実 (Arai, Yumi) Song - 翳りゆく部屋 (Kageriyuku Heya) [Eng. "Darkening Room"] *Single Version Release Date - March 1976
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白い坂道が空まで続いていた ゆらゆらかげろうが あの子を包む 誰もきづかず ただひとり あの子は昇っていく 何もおそれない そして舞い上がる The white slope continued on to the sky Wavering, ephemerality envelops her Unnoticed by anyone, all alone, She is ascending She fears nothing, and soars up high
空に憧れて 空をかけてゆく あの子の命はひこうき雲 She admires the sky, is dashing through the sky Her life is like a vapor trail
高いあの窓で あの子は死ぬ前も 空を見ていたの 今はわから��い ほかの人には わからない あまりにも若すぎたと ただ思うだけ けれど しあわせ At that high window, even before her death, She looked to the sky, and now they don’t understand Other people don’t understand They only think that She was too young, but she is happy
空に���れて 空をかけてゆく あの子の命はひこうき雲 She admires the sky, is dashing through the sky Her life is like a vapor trail
空に憧れて 空をかけてゆく あの子の命はひこうき雲 She admires the sky, is dashing through the sky Her life is like a vapor trail
#Yumi Arai#Hikō-ki Gumo#Hikouki Gumo#Vapor Trail#The Wind Rises#Studio Ghibli#you need to see the film to really understand
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Some Friends Decided to come over!! (EN)
友達が来ることに決めた!!! (JP)
(EN): I Had a sudden Visit from Beatle George, John, and Paul today, I decided to have a day in and they joined me reading some magazines I have and watching television with me
(JP): I ビートルズのジョージ、ジョン、ポールからの突然の訪問があり、今日、私は1日を過ごすことを決意し、彼らは私と一緒にいくつかの雑誌を読み、テレビを見ました。
Song (EN): Baby, You're a rich man
Song (JP): ベイビー、お金持ちです。
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土曜の夜は羽田に来るの (Doyou no Yoru wa Haneda ni Kuru no) by Hi-Fi Set / ハイ・ファイ・セット
Album: Sky Restaurant (Single) Year: 1975 Label: Express/Alfa Records Lyrics: Yumi Arai / 荒井由実 Music: Kunihiko Murai / 村井邦彦
#japanese new music#hi-fi set#1975#express#alfa records#yumi arai#yumi matsutoya#kunihiko murai#subcategory: soul/fusion#admin fave#tip of the new music iceberg#almost city pop#ハイ・ファイ・セット#Youtube
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yumi matsutoya - kathmadu (1995)
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雨のステイション - Yumi Arai genre: pop,ballad / language: japanese / release date: 1975.06.20
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松任谷由実 – Call me back/松任谷由実with 荒井由実
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Afternoon watching the sea (Yumi Arai) J-pop
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Yumi Arai (Yumi Matsutoya) has a somewhat earthy voice. The characteristics are obvious when compared with the hi-fi set that covered her songs, but this song is an exception, and the scent of urban concrete is prominent instead of earth.
#Afternoon watching the sea#Yumi Arai#J-pop#earthy voice#hi-fi set#Babylman#the scent of urban concrete#Youtube
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Artist - 荒井由実 (Arai, Yumi) Song - やさしさに包まれたなら (Yasashisa Ni Tsutsumareta Nara) [Eng. "If I've Been Enveloped In Tenderness"] *Single Version Release Date - April 1974
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