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Japanese pop J-pop ( ja, ジェイポップ, ''jeipoppu''; often stylized as J-POP; an abbreviated form of "Japanese popular music"), natively also known simply as , is the name for a form of popular music that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1 ...

singer.

Background

Tanimura was raised mainly in

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. She moved frequently between

and Hawaii between the ages of 3 and 8, after which she also stayed for an extended period of time in Los Angeles. Tanimura was enrolled in the College of Law at

Aoyama Gakuin University is a private Christian university in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. Originally established in 1874 by missionaries from the Methodist Episcopal Church, it was reconfigured in its current form in 1949 as part of Aoyama Gakuin. Aoyama Gakuin Universit ...

and graduated in March 2010. She is married to three-weight world champion boxer

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Career

In her third year of high school, Tanimura caught the attention of music production agents at an event in Osaka. In 2007, her first singles, "Again" and "Say Good-Bye" were released under

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's Sonic Groove label. The singles peaked at No. 55 and No. 105 on the

Oricon , established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music. It started as, which was founded by Sōkō Koike in Nov ...

charts, respectively. In 2008, Tanimura released the singles "Jungle Dance" and "If I'm Not the One / Sexy Senorita". They peaked at No. 15 and No. 8 on the Oricon charts, respectively. In 2010, she was chosen to sing the official theme songs of the game

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. The songs were released as part of "Far Away / Believe You" on March 24, 2010.

Discography

Albums

Singles

External links

Official site

Official blog
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tanimura, Nana 1987 births Living people Japanese women television personalities Japanese women pop singers Aoyama Gakuin University alumni Avex Group artists Singers from Osaka Singers from Sapporo 21st-century Japanese singers 21st-century Japanese women singers