Hiromi Hayakawa

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Mexican actress and singer who began her music career as a contestant in the reality show La Academia. She worked mostly in musical theatre, however she also had occasional television roles. Hayakawa was also a voice actress, who worked primarily on the Spanish American dub of films and series from the United States. Hayakawa was born to Alfonso Javier Hayakawa, who is of Japanese descent and a native of Torreón, Coahuila, and Lourdes Elsa Salas, from the city of Chihuahua, making her of Japanese and Mexican descent. Her parents resided in Fukuoka while her father studied Industrial Engineering there. They returned to Mexico when Hiromi was only two years old, and at the time, her mother was pregnant with her second child, Kaori. Hayakawa is best known for her work on Mentiras: The Musical, based on the pop culture and music of the 1980s. She played all of the main roles: Daniela, Dulce, Lupita, Yuri, Emmanuel and Manoella. Hayakawa was expecting a baby, due on 21 October 2017. On 26 September she was rushed to a hospital and was discovered to have bleeding in the liver. Efforts were made to save the child, named Julieta, but she died at around 11 pm. Hayakawa died before noon, the following day. She was 34. Link to Wikipedia biography