Hiromi Yanagihara

Yanagihara Hiromi (柳原尋美; October 19, 1979 – July 16, 1999) was a Japanese pop singer and actress. She started out as an actress appearing in doramas tied up to Hello! project's agency. She got a role in the movie Morning Cop (starring Morning Musume and Michiyo Heike) and later joined the group Country Musume. Yanagihara was tragically killed in a car accident one week before the group's first release, "Futari no Hokkaido."