Hajime Waki (脇一, born in 1999) is a Honduran-Japanese singer-songwriter of Bachata music that gained popularity after playing and composing songs of this genre in Japanese. He is the first artist who composes mixing this three languages altogether in one song (Japanese, English, Spanish). He has a mixture of cultures there being born in Honduras and his mother being a Japanese Dominican.

He was born and raised in the city of Comayagua in Honduras, his father is from Honduras and his mother is Japanese with Dominican Republic descent. Since he was a child he had a fondness for writing romantic poems as well as being very interested in the regional music. During his high school days he had a brief rock band where they came to play in the city until they separated, it is there where he begins to compose bachata music and write lyrics for his songs at home, in his own words his greatest inspiration. During his beginning as a composer in his adolescence, he was the American-Dominican singer Romeo Santos, the vocalist of the bachatra band Aventura and Takahiro Moriuchi, lead singer of Japanese rock band One Ok Rock.^[1]