Shigeru Matsuyama

Birth: 1937 or 1938 Birthplace: Nagano Japan Age:79 Graduated: Nihon University College of Art Department of Music Japanese composer and arranger. He was born in Nagano but was raised in Kanazawa. He graduated from Nihon Universitys College of Art. Matsuyama was known for his work on television shows movies and commercials. He composed the music and arranged the theme songs for the original Mobile Suit Gundamhttps://anilist.co/anime/80/MobileSuitGundam/ series alongside Takeo Watanabehttps://anilist.co/staff/106839/TakeoWatanabe. He also returned to the franchise in more recent times to compose insert songs for Mobile Suit Gundam: The Originhttps://anilist.co/anime/10937/MobileSuitGundamTheOrigin/. On April 7 2017 He passed away tragically due to burns sustained in a house fire in Nerima Tokyo. The fire broke out at Matsuyamas twostory residence at around 4:30 p.m. on Friday and burned about 10 square meters of a secondfloor Japanesestyle room. Matsuyama was rescued from the room but he had sustained burns. He was pronounced dead at the hospital.