In 2016, however, Ian Martin of The Japan Times compared her output unfavorably with that of Hikaru Utada, describing Matsuda as "first and foremost an idol rather than an artist.
In 1979, she started to rise in popularity as a magazine teen idol and in the same year, debuted as an actress in all 26 episodes of the television series Odaijini, which was broadcast by Nippon TV.
With the popularity of "Aoi Sangosho", female fans all over the country were inspired by her haircut, generating great demand for it at hair salons and becoming ubiquitous as the Seiko-chan cut.
While on tour in May Seiko released her fifth studio album Pineapple , which included "Akai Sweet Pea", "Nagisa no Balcony" along with its B-Side track and 7 newly recorded songs.
[12] In December 1982, Seiko held her first concert in Nippon Budoukan entitled "Christmas Queen" and appeared at the New Year television program Kohaku for the third time.
On 28 March 1983 Seiko was physically attacked by a mentally ill person with a piece of metal in front of 6,000 horrified fans during a performance of a concert held in Okinawa.
[12] During that same month, Seiko launched a concert tour with the French title, "Un Deux Trois" and the movie "Primeria no Densetsu Tengoku no Kiss" was released, her second in a starring role.
B-side track "Natsufuku no Eve" served as the theme song for the theatrical cinema movie of the same title (screened in July in the same year), starring Seiko herself.
Until this release, the album always had 10 tracks in total, however in Tinker Bell case, it turned out to be only 9 due to her busy schedule with the live tour series.
In January, it has started with following the break-up with the singer Hiromi Go,[39] one month later announced engagement with the actor Masaki Kanda and in April the marriage and ceremony in June.
It became her first single in with both A-side and B-side track has received an commercial purpose: lead single served as a theme song for the film Penguin's Memory: Shiawase Monogatari [ja] and B-side track Caribbean Wind served as well as movie song for the movie Caribbean: Ai no Symphony, which become her 4th main role and played with her husband Kanda.
Compared to her senior singer, Momoe Yamaguchi, who retired after marriage, Seiko's will and support from the husband of continuing career has received from the public nickname Mama Doll-mother, works as an idol.
In June 1989 Seiko has ended contract with the Sun Music Production, in which she was under custody since her pre-debut times, and in August established her own private affiliated office Fantic with her brother, Mitsushisa Kamachi being the representative director and president.
[52][54] It was the first time in ten years for Japanese artists to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 since Yellow Magic Orchestra's "Computer Game" reached number sixty in 1980.
B-side track Ashita he Nukedashite Yukou served as an opening theme to the television anime Mysterious Thief Saint Tail.
With the success of the single Anata ni Aitakute, Seiko made appearance at the New-year television program Kohaku for the twelfth time.
The B-side track Anata no Soba ni served as an ending theme to the TV Asahi television program Saturday Night at the Mysteries.
In July, Seiko appeared in and was credited as an actress in the American movie Drop Dead Gorgeous, in which she stars with the foreign names Tina/Seiko Haward.
Instead, she collaborated with the musicians and writers, who helped rise her fame and popularity in the 80's, such as Masanori Sasaji, Akira Inoue or Takashi Matsumoto, who wrote all the songs.
Her thirty-third studio album 20th party has songs divided half written by Ryo Ogura, left previously at the stock and Harada.
On the same year in April, Seiko made her fourth attempt to publish successful work in the United States by releasing English single "All to you".
Hibari Misora, a well-known enka singer from the 1950s held the previous record with her 1989 album Kyō no Ware ni Asu wa Katsu (60,000 yen).
In April 2010, Matsuda made a guest appearance on Fox Broadcasting Company's popular TV dramas "Bones" on its 5th season in episode 15.
Following those events, Matsuda had canceled her last days of the dinner show,[136] and her mini-concerts supposed to be held between 23 and 26 December,[137] as well as declining her television appearance for Kohaku.
Included in the album is a jazz version of her 1982 hit song Akai Sweet Pea, with lyrics rewritten in English and features a saxophone solo from American saxophonist Kenny G. It was released on 15 December 2023 as a promotional single.
In February 1989 tabloid magazine Friday released an article with a photo of a secret meeting with Nakamori's boyfriend at the time, Masahiko Kondo in New York.
[166] [167] [168] In 1997, while going through her first divorce, American dancer Christopher Conte, who used the stage name Alan Reed, published the book "Backstage of Seiko Matsuda" about the sexual harassment he suffered at her hands during their affair.
[181][182][183] On 18 December 2021 Matsuda's only child and daughter, Sayaka Kanda, was found unconscious in the outer garden on the fourteenth floor of a hotel in Chūō ward, Sapporo.
[184] The cause of death was determined to have been traumatic shock, with the Hokkaido Prefectural Police suspecting that Kanda committed suicide by jumping from an upper floor of the hotel.
[185] On 16 October 2023 news websites reported that Matsuda donated over 10 million yen (66k dollars) to her hometown Fukuoka, which was affected by heavy rains in July of the same year.