宮脇咲良 (Sakura Miyawaki)

Miyawaki Sakura (宮脇咲良, 미야와키 사쿠라) is a Japanese singer and actress who was born on March 19, 1998 in Kagoshima, Japan.
She is currently under Source Music.

She is a first-generation member of AKB48’s sister group HKT48 which debuted in 2011, later she was promoted as to the Team H of the group on March 4, 2012. In 2014, she transferred to Team KIV where she became the co-captain until her graduation. During 2014 to 2018, she became a concurrent member of AKB48, where she held a position as a lead singer and center on two of their song, “Kimi Wa Melody” and “No Way Man.”

She went on hiatus to participate as well as finished second place in Mnet’s girl group survival show PRODUCE 48 in 2018. On that same year, she debuted as a sub-rapper, sub-vocalist, and the visual of the South Korean-Japanese girl group IZ*ONE.

After the disbandment of IZ*ONE on April 29, 2021, due to contract expiration, she came back to her long-time group HKT48. She graduated after only two months since her return to the group on June 27, 2021, with a single “Omoide ni Suru ni wa Mada Hayasugiru.”

On March 14, 2022, she and her fellow ex-bandmate of IZ*ONE Chaewon signed an exclusive contract with HYBE’s subsidiary Source Music and later debuted as a member of LE SSERAFIM on May 2, 2022.