Mimi Miyagi

Melody Damayo was born in Davao City, Damayo went back to Mindanao for high school, and her family enrolled her in a Seventh-day Adventist academy (Mindanao Mission Academy) in Misamis Oriental, hoping she would absorb Filipino values. After finishing high school, she enrolled in an Adventist college in Bukidnon, studying finance and economics at Mountain View College, but she dropped out in her second year. She says she had been a disc jockey on the college radio station and had decided on a career in show business. == Career ==

Damayo returned to Los Angeles when she had run out of money and began looking for jobs. By age 18, she had intended to be a makeup artist. She was the publisher of the erotic American Asian magazine Oriental Dolls (now known as Asian Hotties). and animal volunteer organizations. She also had a cameo role in the 2013 mainstream movie Speed Dragon. In 2012, she became a fashion reporter for Eyestrane, an online magazine focusing on Asian talent internationally. ==Political career==

On May 12, 2006, she filed as a Republican gubernatorial candidate in the state of Nevada, She faced four other Republican candidates in the primary held on August 15, 2006, and was defeated by a wide margin by Jim Gibbons. After her loss in the primaries, she joined the Libertarian Party. ==References==