COMPOSER

Miki Matsubara

1959 - 2004

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Miki Matsubara (松原 みき, Matsubara Miki) (28 November 1959 – 7 October 2004) was a Japanese composer, lyricist, and singer from Kishiwada, Osaka, Japan. She participated in the opening and ending theme songs of the TV anime Gu-Gu Ganmo under the name "Suzie Matsubara". Her 1979 debut song "Mayonaka no Door (Stay With Me)" became a hit, reaching number 28 on the Oricon chart, selling 104,000 copies according to Oricon survey, and selling 300,000 copies announced by Canyon Records. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Miki Matsubara has received more than 2,679,926 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Miki Matsubara is the 445th most popular composer (up from 596th in 2019), the 486th most popular biography from Japan (up from 653rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Japanese Composer.

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  • 57.62

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  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Miki Matsubara ranks 445 out of 1,451. Before her are Karl Goldmark, Bill Conti, Paolo Tosti, Robert Stolz, Friedrich von Flotow, and Ferdinand Hiller. After her are Grock, Joseph Martin Kraus, Pēteris Vasks, Johann Ludwig Bach, Leroy Anderson, and Pierre de la Rue.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Miki Matsubara ranks 67. Before her are Nina Hartley, Youssou N'Dour, Victoria Abril, Christian Thielemann, Irene Cara, and Chan Santokhi. After her are Satoru Iwata, Majed Abdullah, Patricia Clarkson, Linda Blair, Wim Hof, and Rupert Everett. Among people deceased in 2004, Miki Matsubara ranks 78. Before her are Thanom Kittikachorn, Nino Manfredi, Rafael Eitan, Marco Pantani, Masanori Tokita, and Harold Shipman. After her are Serge Reggiani, Jean Rouch, Uta Hagen, Olga Ladyzhenskaya, Boris Trajkovski, and Irina Press.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Miki Matsubara ranks 486 out of 6,245. Before her are Hiroshi Kanazawa (1950), Ashikaga Yoshiteru (1536), Masanori Tokita (1925), Fumihiko Maki (1928), Kitaro Nishida (1870), and Kusunoki Masashige (1294). After her are Satoru Iwata (1959), Soemu Toyoda (1885), Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu (1902), Hajime Sugiyama (1880), Hifuyo Uchida (null), and Yasuji Okamura (1884).

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Among COMPOSERS In Japan

Among composers born in Japan, Miki Matsubara ranks 4. Before her are Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952), Ichirou Mizuki (1948), and Toru Takemitsu (1930). After her are Shunsuke Kikuchi (1931), Kenji Kawai (1957), Toshi Ichiyanagi (1933), Koichi Sugiyama (1931), Koji Kondo (1961), Keiko Abe (1937), Nobuo Uematsu (1959), and Akira Ifukube (1914).

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