Shinji Tanimura

is a singer and songwriter from Osaka, Japan who acclaimed much fame and prestige in the world of music of Japan and Asia.

Biography

In 1971，Shinji Tanimura set up the Alice musical group and in 1972 produced his firstExtended Play musical album. Two years later, they produced their first album from the musical group. During this time, Shinji Tanimura had also written several musical pieces for many famous and popular singers of that time, including Momoe Yamaguchi.

In the early 1980s, Shinji Tanimura started to move towards his singer-songwriter career and in 1981 he held singing concerts in places like Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Thailand as well as in 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 the 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 annivesary to celebrate Sino-Japanese relations. In 2003 he held a “'Help China get rid of SARS' music concert”，and donated all the 1534 Yen he earned from the concert to China's Red Cross Society to aid them in their efforts in fighting SARS.

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）

External links

* [http://www.tanimura.com/ Official site]