Hiromi Hayakawa

Marla Hiromi Hayakawa Salas (October 19, 1982 – September 27, 2017), known professionally as Hiromi Hayakawa, was a Mexican actress and singer. She was born in Fukuoka, Japan. She began her music career as a contestant in the reality show La Academia.^[1] Her last well known role was as El Chema as Lucy Li, an Asian-Mexican prostitute.

Hayakawa worked mostly in musical theatre, however she has had occasional television roles. Hayakawa was also a voice actress, whose work is primarily on the Spanish American dub of movies and series from the United States. She was best known for dubbing the Spanish version of Disney movies such as Alice in Wonderland, Prom, and in Brave.

Hayakawa died from complications of childbirth as her liver failed at a hospital in Mexico City on September 27, 2017 at the age of 34.^[2]