Shinji Tanimura

Shinji Tanimura (谷村 新司) was a Japanese singer-songwriter.

Life and career
Tanimura set up the musical group Alice together with Takao Horiuchi in 1971 and released his first extended play musical album in the following year. Alice produced its first album two years later. During this time, Tanimura also composed several musical pieces for other singers, such as Momoe Yamaguchi. In 1981, he held concerts in places such as Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand and Beijing. He also made recordings on the Japanese division of the Casablanca Records label.

Tanimura died on 8 October 2023, at the age of 74. It was reported that he had battled enteritis for some time and had surgery for the disease in March of the same year.