Daily Archives: June 15, 2004

Seiko Still Strutting

Dressed more like a teenage starlet than a 42-year, twice married mother of a teenage starlet, Matsuda Seiko kicked off her latest Japan tour on Sunday at the Saitama Super Arena. She sang mostly songs from “Sunshine”, her latest album and the first in two years. The tour will take in 10 shows at six venues and Seiko will play to 80,000 fans, presumably most of whom are middle aged men. Giving them what they came for, she did four costume changes, including one that bared her midriff. Backing her on guitar was the man believed to be behind her second divorce and often rumored to be her future third husband, Harada Shinji (46). The two co-wrote her latest single “Aitai”.