Hello Everyone,
Hope all are doing great, today is the 19th anniversary of her demise.
I started listening to J pop back in March 2021 when I was exploring some different music and first music I heard was "60s-70s Japanese Instrumental Cinema Funk Breaks & Beats". That's just the start of j pop journey then I got recommendation of "Miki Matsubara - Stay With Me HD (Club Mix)". The music was funky and upbeat which later I find it was remixed (Original Club Mix Mixed By D.O.I.), which is attracting but not organic. I did started listening to it every morning, but did not bother to explore much of her music. However I started getting more recommendations and started liking 80s j pop by various artist. Currently I mostly listen to 70s to 90s j pop. I feel blessed upon exploring j pop.
Finally I started exploring more about Miki and got this thread upon seeing some of her rear images and started reading, after which I fell in Love with her. I keep listening to her for almost 8 - 10 hours a day which is eventually depressing and I keep on thinking of her throughout the day which started effecting my day to day work. However listening to her for longer hours helped me understand the style, which is different in many stages.
Her studio recording has a balance of every instrument and its just perfect to listen to.
Her live stage performance I feel are the best, her voice has peaked on every live performance as she is free to play with her voice every time. She feels very happy and she is more connected to her audience, her stage presence is what makes me fall in love every time. Her expression, her body movement its just soo deep in every way.
Her English album "Blue Eyes" is what I never listen to much, as I feel she is uncomfortable while singing english songs. She must gave sung just for producers demand. I guess she don't know english either.
She often dance while her performance which looks sweet and happy, every time I see her dance I feel so happy for her, I really love her dance but she is not a good dancer though.
When she started her jazz band Dr. Woo, that's when she has more freedom and her performances become more attractive, but there is only few performance of Dr. Woo which is on youtube.
There is no photograph of her marriage and if you google search her husband's name you get a result of j porn star which is sad.
I wish to find more details regarding her marriage, to visit all the places she performed, to get to meet her friends and known people.
Keep listening to her is kind of sad and depressing but it keeps me motivated to go to japan and do better in life, her talent is what helped her gain popularity. I keep doing best to gain my talent, I wish some day to do better for myself
