◇ image via WikipediaMiki Matsubara
Miki Matsubara is a J-pop and Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Carole King. Those roots explain a lot about how Miki Matsubara arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Yurie Kokubu, Junko Yagami, Kingo Hamada, Akina Nakamori and Shigeru Suzuki, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Akina Nakamori and Mariko Kouda, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 8 connections around Miki Matsubara, reaching back through Carole King and forward to Akina Nakamori. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Miki Matsubara was a Japanese singer and songwriter. She contributed to the opening and ending theme songs of the anime Gu-Gu Ganmo under the name Suzie Matsubara. Her 1979 debut song "Mayonaka no Door " became a hit, reaching No. 28 on the Oricon chart.
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Miki Matsubara connections
Miki Matsubara grew out of Carole King, shares an orbit with Yurie Kokubu, Junko Yagami, Kingo Hamada and Akina Nakamori, went on to shape Akina Nakamori and Mariko Kouda. 8 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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