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| Shinji Tanimura 谷村新司 |
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| Birth name | 谷村新司 (Tanimura, Shinji) |
| Born | December 11, 1948 |
| Origin | Osaka, Japan |
| Genres | Enka |
| Occupations | Singer, Songwriter |
| Years active | 1971-present |
Shinji Tanimura (谷村新司, born December 11, 1948) is a Japanese singer and songwriter from Osaka
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Biography
In 1971, Tanimura set up the Alice musical group, along with Takao Horiuchi, and in 1972 produced his first extended play musical album. Two years later, they produced their first album from the musical group. During this time, Tanimura had also written several musical pieces for many famous and popular singers of that time, including Momoe Yamaguchi.
In the early 1980s, Tanimura started to move towards his singer-songwriter career and in 1981 he held singing concerts in places like Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand, and Beijing.
Some of the more famous singers from Hong Kong had also performed many of Tanimura's pieces, including Jacky Cheung, Alan Tam, Anita Mui and Leslie Cheung. He had also once said that Jacky Cheung and Alan Tam were two of his closest friends from Hong Kong. In 1984, Tanimura, together with South Korean singer Cho Yong-pil and Alan Tam, set up Pax Musica to promote cultural exchanges of different countries and world peace.
Career in China
In 1987, after having left Alice, he wrote his famous piece Subaru, and mentioned that his inspiration came from his visits to Heilongjiang in China. Since then, he had been actively involved in organising performances to promote Sino-Japanese relations, including an invitation by the Japanese and Chinese governments to organise and perform at the grand 30th anniversary to celebrate Sino-Japanese relations. In 2003, he held a “'Help China get rid of SARS' music concert” and donated all the 15.34 million Yen he earned from the concert to China's Red Cross Society to aid them in their efforts in fighting SARS. In 2004, he became the professor at Shanghai Conservatory of Music. In September 2007, he planned the friendship concert between Japan and China in Shanghai and he joined it. The concert was the 35th anniversary for the normalization of relations between Japan and China. He played the song Sarai etc.
Records
- Number of self-composed musical pieces: 370
- Number of solo albums: 62
- Number of musical albums: 63
- Number of copies of albums sold: 29,796,682
- Number of concerts held (Japan): 3,620 （top in Japan until today）
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