Key facts
- Born
- ( 1959-11-28 ) 28 November 1959, Kishiwada, Osaka , Japan
- Died
- 7 October 2004 (2004-10-07) (aged 44), Sakai, Osaka , Japan
- Other name
- Suzie Matsubara ( スージー・松原 )
- Occupations
- Singer songwriter
- Spouse
- Masaki Honjo
- Genres
- J-pop city pop jazz
- Instruments
- Vocals piano keyboards
- Years active
- 1978–2000
- Label
- Pony Canyon
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Place of birth
- Kishiwada
- Place of death
- Sakai
- Occupation
- television personality
- Languages spoken
- Japanese
- Notable work
- Mayonaka no Door〜Stay With Me
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- keyboard instrument
- Record label
- Pony Canyon
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- start of work period
- 1979-00-00
- date of birth
- 1959-11-28
- name in kana
- まつばら みき
- name in native language
- 松原 みき
- social media followers
- 124000
- date of death
- 2004-10-07
- cause of death
- cervix uterine cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons category
- Miki Matsubara
- pseudonym
- スージー・松原
- place of burial
- Aoyama Cemetery
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Encyclopedic overview
Miki Matsubara (松原 みき, Matsubara Miki; 28 November 1959 – 7 October 2004) 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.
Believing that her cancer diagnosis was the result of the lifestyle she lived during her career, Matsubara retired and severed all connections to the music world in 2000, dying from cervical cancer four years later at the age of 44. Since 2020, "Mayonaka no Door" has become widely known overseas due to its use on TikTok and the resurgence of the city pop genre.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Miki Matsubara” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.