Biography:

Sayaka Kanda (神田 沙也加, Kanda Sayaka< /span>born on , ^?1^st October 1986 in Tokyo, Japan and died on December 18, 2021) was an actress, singer a>). seiyū (Japanesevoice actress and Japanese idol,

She was particularly famous for her participation in the franchise Danganronpa.

Daughter of actor Masaki Kanda and singer Seiko Matsuda, Sayaka Kanda notably played one of the roles stars of the film Dragon Head in 2003. She stopped her musical career under the aegis of her mother in 2005, following the public revelation of her affair with Kitano Masato of theJ-pop Day After Tomorrow group; this affair led to the separation of the said group, as well as that of Sayaka and Seiko Matsuda who was opposed to this affair, a family and professional rupture then well publicized. In 2014, Sayaka Kanda doubled the voice of the character Anna in the Japanese version of the Disney animated film Frozen.

In April 2014, she resumed her musical career: she then formed a new group, TRUSTRICK, in duo with guitarist Billy. Their first album, Eternity was released on June 25 of the same year.

A big fan of the games Danganronpa, she will play the role of Junko Enoshima and Mukuro Ikusaba in the stage adaptation of the first game Her contribution to the franchise does not stop there as she composed several songs with her group TRUSTRICK for the anime Danganronpa 3: Future Arc : DEAD OR LIE the opening credits of the series and Recall THE END, the end credits. Finally in 2017, she lent her voice to Kaede Akamatsu, one of the characters in the game Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony.

Also in 2017, Kanda married actor Mitsu Murata (en) 1. She announced their divorce in December 20192.

Sayaka Kanda died on December 18, 2021 in Sapporo, where she was to star in the musical My Fair Lady, after falling from a window of her hotel3. The cremation took place on December 21.

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