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Fears are growing for a Melbourne soul singer who vanished more than a week ago after suffering a mental breakdown.
Eimable Manirakiza's mental health started to deteriorate after the city was plunged into its fifth lockdown on July 16.
On the afternoon of July 23, the 24-year-old became so unwell his family called paramedics to their home in Werribee, but as they went outside to flag down the ambulance, he disappeared and has not been seen since.
'Because we don't know what's happened to him... sometimes we despair, and sometimes we feel quite hopeful,' his friend Kendra Keller told AAP.
Eimable Manirakiza (pictured) has not been seen since he disappeared from his Werribee home, in Melbourne's southwest, on July 23
Ms Keller is coordinating the search for her friend of five years, and says the stress on his family has been 'heartbreaking'.
Eimable was born in Tanzania but grew up in Australia from the age of six.
He is loved and respected in the city's hip hop
