Sakura Miyawaki

At 26 years old, Sakura Miyawaki has this physical status:

Career

Miyawaki joined HKT48 as a first-generation trainee in July 2011. On October 23, she made her first public appearance as an HKT48 member, performing "Flying Get" at a national handshake event. "Te wo Tsunagara" was her debut on September 26 at a revival of SKE48 Team S stage.

On March 4, 2012, Miyawaki was officially promoted to full member status with HKT48 Team H, as well as 15 other trainees.

Miyawaki became the first HKT48 member to have ranked in the AKB48 general election in 2012. She received 6,635 votes, putting her at the 47th position on the charts. She made her first A-side appearance on AKB48's 28th single "Uza" later this year. Although she did not make the A-side for the 29th and 30th singles, she did appear on the A-side for the 31st single, "Sayonara Crawl," which was released on May 22, 2013 and ranked 26th overall in AKB48's 2013 general election with 25,760 votes.

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Miyawaki would be transferred to Team KIV, the newly formed Team of HKT48's first day of the Kyushu 7 Prefecture Tour in Oita on January 11, 2014. Later this year, she was promoted to vice captain of Team KIV and given a similar position in AKB48 Team A.

Miyawaki ran in the 2014 AKB48 general election and finished 11th overall with 45,538 votes, earning her a position on the A-side for "Kokoro no Placard." Miyawaki lost in the 3rd round of the preliminary competition in that year's rock-paper scissors tournament. However, management decided not to divide the lead position with winner Mayu Watanabe on AKB48's 38th single, "Kibote Refrain," and became the first local HKT48 member to have lead position on an A-side single.

Miyawaki was one of the lead roles in AKB48's drama Majisuka Gakuen 4 alongside Haruka Shimazaki in 2015. On January 19, the season began on January 19. She finished 7th overall in the general election in the same year with 81,422 votes.

She released Sakura, her first photo book, in July 2015, which debuted on the weekly Oricon photobook chart and ranked third on the general book chart.

With "Kimi wa Melody," she became the first solo lead on AKB's 43rd single.

Miyawaki appeared in and finished second in reality girl group survival show Produce 48 in 2018 and became a member of Korean-Japanese idol group Iz*One, which debuted in October of the same year. Before joining Iz*One, she and the other two Japanese members of the organisation went on a hiatus from their respective Japanese organizations until their employment with the company came to an end in April 2021. On YouTube, she also created her own video gaming channel. Miyawaki has over 692,000 followers and 220,000 video views as of August 6, 2021.

A look at Iz*One's disbandment in April 2021, Vivi's July issue revealed that she would leave HKT48. Miyawaki announced her resignation on May 15, 2021, with a graduation concert planned for June 19. "Omoide ni Suru ni wa Mada Hayasugiru" (liter., a short version of her graduation song's music video, "Omoide ni Suru ni wa Mada Hayasugiru) a short version of her graduation song, "Omoide ni wa Mada Hayasugiru" (, lit. On June 14, "It's Too Early to Remember" was posted on YouTube, while the official audio was released on June 20. On June 27, she would have seen her last appearance with HKT48. Miyawaki became the face of Kerastase and the Chinese cosmetics brand Flower Knows in May 2021. Vernalossom announced on November 1, 2021, that Miyawaki's deal with them has ended.

Miyawaki and former Iz*One member Kim Chae-won agreed exclusive deals with Source Music on March 14, 2022, and they were confirmed to debut as members of Le Sserafim in May. She joined A.M. Entertainment in Japan on March 21, 2022, for individual activities in Japan. Le Sserafim made their debut with Fearless, an extended play.

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