Biography

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.

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.

Tanimura wrote several musical pieces for many famous and popular Japanese singers of the seventies, including Momoe Yamaguchi.

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 Leslie 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.