Miki Matsubara (松原 みき, Matsubara Miki, November 28, 1959 – October 7, 2004) was a Japanese composer, lyricalist, and singer from Nishi-ku, Sakai, Osaka, Japan.She is known mainly as a j-pop singer by the hit songs such as "Mayonaka no Door (真夜中のドア)/Stay with me", "Neat na gogo san-ji (ニートな午後3時)", "The Winner", among others. During her music career she released 8 singles, and 12 albums. Despite her work being mainly domestic outside of Japan, she was known as an anime singer and songwriter. She also had some international work with Motown jazz fusion group Dr. Strut in Los Angeles (becoming a backing band in the album recordings for "Cupid"), Tokyo and Osaka (Hall concerts), later releasing a jazz cover album entitled "BLUE EYES".
In October 7, 2004, she died at the age of 44 due to the complications from uterine cervix cancer.
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