Who Is Sayaka Kanda’s Mother Seiko Matsuda?

On Sunday, December 19, 2021, Japanese actress and singer Sayaka Kanda died after apparently falling from a height at a hotel in Sapporo, northern Japan.

Sayaka Kanda is also widely known as the daughter of Japanese pop singer and songwriter, Seiko Matsuda.

Who Is Sayaka Kanda’s Mother Seiko Matsuda?

Noriko Kamachi, professionally known as Seiko Matsuda, is a Japanese pop singer and songwriter, known for being one of the most popular Japanese idols of the 1980s.

Seiko Matsuda’s legacy is best expressed in singles rather than albums.” Seiko Matsuda once held the record for number-one hits from 1983 to 2000 (broken by B’z) and for solo artist (broken by Ayumi Hamasaki in 2006).

Seiko Matsuda was the overall finale performer of Kouhaku (Red White Music Battle) in 2014 and 2015, the prestigious NHK New Year’s Eve Music show on which she has performed 21 times (until 2017).

In January 2011, Seiko Matsuda was listed by the Japanese music television program Music Station as the 2nd best-selling idol of all time in Japan, with 29,510,000 records sold, placing her right behind pop group SMAP and ahead of Akina Nakamori, her biggest rival from the 1980s, who was listed in third place.

Seiko Matsuda is still actively releasing new singles and albums, doing annual summer concert tours, winter dinner shows, high-profile TV commercials and movies, and makes frequent TV appearances and radio broadcasts.