Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In November 1979, Japanese singer Miki Matsubara, then 19 years old, released her debut single “Mayonaka no Door – Stay With Me” — ...

Picture the scene: It‘s 1979, and up-and-coming songwriter Hayashi Tetsuji receives a new request from Kaneko Haruhiko, director of prominent record label Pony Canyon. “He wanted a song for this new ...

TikTok has a way of turning obscure songs into sudden hits. In December, users of the platform resurrected Miki Matsubara's 1979 debut, “Mayonaka no Door: Stay With Me.” The song itself, which made ...

Miki Matsubara was a Japanese singer and composer who made music in the 1980s. She became well-known for her 1979 hit song “Stay With Me,” which gained renewed popularity worldwide on social media in ...

A 'city pop' song from 1979 called 'Mayonaka no Door - Stay With Me' by a singer named Miki Matsubara has emerged from relative obscurity to become a widely played streaming favorite. By Billboard ...

On this day, two decades ago, Miki Matsubara died quietly in Osaka, far from the lights that once shimmered off her stage-ready smile. She was only forty-four, but her voice was already immortal. The ...

Viral Video Watch: Japanese composer Miki Matsubara’s ‘Stay With Me’ tops Spotify’s global viral chart For 11 days, the 40-year-old ‘city pop’ song has topped Spotify’s global viral track after being ...