Native name 宮脇 咲良 Height 1.63 m | Instruments Vocals Name Sakura Miyawaki | |
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Born 19 March 1998 (age 26) ( 1998-03-19 ) Albums 0 to 1 no Aida, Set List - Greatest Songs - Kanzen Ban Similar People Haruka Kodama, Haruka Shimazaki, Rino Sashihara, Sayaka Yamamoto, Mio Tomonaga | ||
Occupation(s) Japanese idol, singer Years active 2011 (2011) – present | ||
[Introduce48] [ENG SUB] Miyawaki Sakura (미야와키 사쿠라)HKT48/AKB48/Produce48 at Variety Show FUNNY
Sakura Miyawaki (宮脇 咲良, Miyawaki Sakura, born 19 March 1998 in Kagoshima Prefecture) is a Japanese singer and a member of the Japanese idol girl groups HKT48 and AKB48. She is vice captain of HKT48's Team KIV and concurrent member of AKB48's Team A.
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- Introduce48 ENG SUB Miyawaki Sakura HKT48AKB48Produce48 at Variety Show FUNNY
- Career
- Stage units
- TV dramas
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In the General Elections of AKB48, she was elected as No.47 (2012), No.26 (2013), No.11 (2014) No.7 (2015), and No.6 (2016) among over 450 members. As one of the group's future super star, she became the center (leading singer & dancer) of AKB48 43rd single "Kimi wa Melody" (You're melody) which is AKB48's Tenth Anniversary Memorial single in January, 2016. On 2017, together with Matsui Jurina from SKE48, the two next generation ace of the gigantic idol group or also known as Jurisaku pair, are chosen to be the WCenter (double centers) for AKB48 group commemorative 48th single "Negaigoto no Mochigusare" or in japanese "[願いごとの持ち腐れ]"
Career
Miyawaki joined HKT48 as their first generation Kenkyūsei (Trainee) in July 2011. She made her first official appearance as an HKT48 member along with the other first generation trainees on October 23 at a "Flying Get" national handshake event. Her theater debut was on November 26 with a revival of Team S stage "Te wo Tsunaginagara".
Miyawaki was officially promoted from a Kenkyūsei (Trainee) to a member of Team H on March 4, 2012 along with 15 other girls.
In 2012, Miyawaki became the first HKT48 member that originated from HKT48 to have ranked in an AKB48 general election. She received 6,635 votes, placing her at the 47th position. Later that year, she landed her first A-side participation on AKB48's 28th single "Uza". Although she did not make the A-side for the 29th and 30th singles, she appeared on the A-side for the 31st single, "Sayonara Crawl", released May 22, 2013, and placed 26th overall in AKB48's 2013 general election with 25,760 votes.
Miyawaki's first A-side participation with HKT48 was on their first single "Suki! Suki! Skip!" (Like! Like! Skip!) and Melon Juice.
On 11 January 2014, it was announced during the first day of HKT48's Kyushu 7 Prefecture Tour at Oita, that Miyawaki would be transferred to the newly formed Team KIV. Later, at AKB48's Group Grand Reformation Festival, she was promoted to vice captain of Team KIV and given a concurrent position in AKB48's Team A.
For AKB48's 36th single, "Labrador Retriever", Miyawaki appeared on the A-side. In the 2014 AKB48 general election, she placed eleventh overall with 45,538 votes and sang on the A-side for "Kokoro no Placard". For that year's rock-paper-scissors tournament, Miyawaki lost in the 3rd round of the preliminary competition. However, management decided she would share the center position with winner Mayu Watanabe for AKB48's 38th single, "Kiboteki Refrain", and became the first local HKT48 member to center on an A-side single.
In 2015, Miyawaki was given a lead role in AKB48's drama Majisuka Gakuen 4 along with Haruka Shimazaki. The season premiered on January 19. She placed seventh overall in the general election with 81,422 votes.
In July 2015 she released her first photobook, titled Sakura. On Oricon it reached number 1 on the weekly photobook chart and number 3 on the general book chart.
On AKB's 43rd single, "Kimi wa Melody", released March 9, 2016, she got her first solo center on an AKB48 single.