Haley Kiyoko, star of Disney’s new high school musical (not High School Musical)

January 19, 2011 by Ben Hamamoto Leave a Comment

More hapas on (kids) TV! So apparently Disney is putting together a high school musical TV movie (not a High School MusicalÂ© TV movie, mind you) called “Lemonade Mouth.”

The star is Nikkei, and Disgrasian has the rundown. Here’s an excerpt:

Hayley Kiyoko (pictured, center), who plays one of the lead misfits. Because the 19 year-old of Japanese descent is crazy talented. She plays the drums, keys, guitar, and writes her own music. … Added bonus: sheâ€™s goofy as hell, as witnessed by this YouTube video she made last summer, when she and girl-groupmate Lauren Hudson, whoâ€™s also Asian, got stuck in the back of their tour van.

Incidentally, isn’t Kiyoko a first name?

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About Ben Hamamoto

Ben Hamamoto is a writer born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He's been published in the Oakland Tribune and has written for New American Media's YO! Youth Outlook and the Nichi Bei Times. He is a research manager for the Health Horizons Program at the Institute for the Future. He also edits Nikkei Heritage, the National Japanese American Historical Societyâ€™s official magazine and contributes to Nichi Bei Weekly.