Raised in Honolulu, Arakawa studied piano at an early age and was just 11 when she performed for 9,000 children at the Honolulu International Center Concert Hall, according to a 1971 report from the Honolulu Star-Bulletin newspaper.
Betsy Arakawa, a concert pianist and co-founder of a home furnishing business, was found dead Wednesday in her Santa Fe, New Mexico, home along with actor-husband Gene Hackman and their dog, according to authorities.
According to a 1981 column in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, she attended a private prep school in Honolulu before moving to Los Angeles and studying at the University of Southern California, from which she graduated with a degree in social sciences and communication.
After college, she played with the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra, now the Hawai’i Symphony Orchestra, and gave a more private show in 1989 at a Chicago-area nursing home used for Hackman's film “The Package.”.
The store's website describes Pandora's as “dealing in functional art, the art of life — what one lives in, sleeps in and wraps around one’s shoulders on a chilly day.”.
