a Martin Short character. Personal life Mary Jo, a patron at a financial-district restaurant where Tabuchi played for tips, became his first wife in 1968, after which he became an American citizen. They moved to Kansas City, and Tabuchi began performing at the Starlite Club in nearby Riverside, Missouri. In 1974 the couple had a son, Shoji John Tabuchi. After moving to Branson in 1980, he met his second wife, Dorothy Lingo, after she attended several of his shows at the Starlite Theater; and he became the stepfather to her two children from a previous marriage. Lingo helps with numerous production aspects of The Shoji Tabuchi Show such as choreography, costume design, and the theater's interior design. Tabuchi is sometimes accompanied by his stepdaughter, Christina. Selected discography Country Music My Way (ABC/Dot, 1975) After Dark, Shoji Entertainments Songs for Mark Koeper, Shoji Entertainments Different Moods: Collection One, Shoji Entertainments Fiddlin' Around, Shoji Entertainments Live from Branson, Shoji Entertainments Notes from Shoji, Shoji Entertainments The Shoji Tabuchi Show! Vols. 1–4, Shoji Entertainments Songs for the Lord, Shoji Entertainments References External links Shoji's site "Tabuchi, Shoji." Contemporary Musicians. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. 12 Jun. 2014. 1944 births Living people 20th-century American musicians 20th-century Japanese musicians 21st-century American musicians 21st-century Japanese musicians American country fiddlers American musicians of Japanese descent Japanese emigrants to the United States Japanese country fiddlers People from Branson, Missouri Musicians from Ishikawa Prefecture Country musicians from Missouri