Shinji Tanimura is a famous Japanese musician who is well known to Chinese for his song "Star". Yesterday, he specially recorded a video to cheer for China, which is fighting the epidemic.
Image source: Screenshot of Xinmin video
Shinji Tanimura said in the video: "Hello friends in Shanghai. I am Shinji Tanimura. During this time, Chinese friends are facing great difficulties and are fighting hard against the epidemic every day. I have a deep relationship with China. In the summer of 1981, as a member of the Alice band, I participated in the Sino-Japanese Friendship Concert at the Workers' Gymnasium in Beijing. Since then, Shinji Tanimura's "Star" has been loved by countless Chinese friends. Since then, I have also visited China many times, and I have many friends in China that I like. Music knows no borders, no age, and songs can connect everyone's hearts. This year is the year of cultural and sports exchanges between China and Japan, and I also have plans to hold concerts in Beijing and Shanghai. I will definitely come to meet my friends in China and let us get through this together. Come on China! Come on Shanghai! Come on! ”
Shinji Tanimura has had a profound influence on the Chinese music scene, and nearly 50 of his works have been adapted into Chinese songs, which have been covered by Teresa Teng, Cheung Kwok-wing, Jacky Cheung, Luo Wen, Tan Yonglin, Mui Yanfang and other singers, for example, Teresa Teng and Rowan sing "Star" from "Pleiades", and Jacky Cheung's "Distant Her" from "Romantic Railway".
As he says in the video, he has a "great relationship" with China.
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In 1981, Shinji Tanimura, who was still a member of the ALICE band at the time, visited China for the first time under the arrangement of the Japan-China Friendship Association, and has since "bonded" with China. In the concert "Hand in Hand" at the Beijing Workers' Gymnasium, he shared the stage with Chinese singers. This concert was the largest concert held since China's reform and opening up.
In October 1994, the Shanghai Municipal People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, The Daily Broadcasting Service and Shanghai Oriental Television co-hosted the "Asian Singers Concert to Commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the Conclusion of the Shanghai-Osaka Sister Cities", and Shinji Tanimura, born in Osaka, Japan, came to Shanghai to perform.
In 2003, China suffered SARS, and in order to help China fight SARS, Shinji Tanimura held a concert in Osaka to support China's fight against SARS, and donated more than 15 million yen raised to the Red Cross Society of China. The year after sars, in order to thank the medical workers who fought in the frontline of SARS, Shinji Tanimura made a special trip to China and held a concert again, which brought great emotion to the Chinese people. In March 2004, Tanimura was invited to serve as a permanent professor in the Department of Music Engineering and an advisor to the Sino-Japanese Music Culture Research Center at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.
At the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, Shinji Tanimura served as the ambassador for the Promotion of Japan at the World Expo, and sang his famous work "Star" at the opening ceremony, touching the audience.
In 2017 and 2018, Shinji Tanimura came to Shanghai for two consecutive years to hold concerts.
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Shinji Tanimura said that this year is the promotion year of cultural and sports exchanges between China and Japan, and it is planned to hold concerts in Beijing and Shanghai. It is understood that he also created new songs for China's fight against the epidemic.