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Yumi Arai strike the Japanese graphs in 1996 using the Concert with Aged Close friends LP, recorded for Toshiba EMI.

b. Yumi Arai, 29 January 1954, Tokyo, Japan. As the girl of a wealthy draper who could afford to provide her personal lessons in music, Yumi progressed into a lady singer-songwriter, debuting in 1972 with ‘Henji Wa Iranai’ (‘I Don’t Desire Any Reply’). Her 5th solitary, ‘Anohi Ni Kaeritai’ (‘I …

Yumi Matsutoya (formerly Yumi Arai) became perhaps one of the most famous people of Japan’s singer/songwriter period in the 1970s, and continued to garner strikes in to the 2000s, a significant feat if a single considers the professions of her American contemporaries: Carly Simon, Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro, etc. Her …