Shoji Tabuchi - Early Life

Early Life

Shoji Tabuchi was born April 16, 1944 in Daishoji, Ishikawa, Japan. When Tabuchi turned 7, his mother encouraged him to learn how to play the violin under the Suzuki Method. Shoji Tabuchi always loved American country music and vowed that one day he would make it to America.

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