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” — ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...