Meet Jérémy de Champris - Our Ambassador in Japan
Jérémy de Champris is a French illustrator/music composer living in Tokyo.
Originally from Paris, Jérémy moved to Dubai (UAE) in 2009. Playing electric guitar since the age of 10, Jérémy started studying audio engineering after graduating from high school – which is the time Smith Pearlson was born.
Smith entered a blues/rock band as their bass guitarist while improving his composition skills in the meantime. His audio studies raised his awareness of sound and music’s rules and technical aspects – finally allowing him to bring any melodic idea to life! He graduated in October 2014.
November 11th, 2014. Dreadful road accident.
“November 11th at 5:45 in the morning, I was dying. I fell into a coma and woke up after 5 weeks. I had 20 surgeries – including 15 brain surgeries. I had diplopia. Though, I wasn’t blind. Unilateral hearing. Though, I wasn’t deaf. Taste and smell disorders. Though I could still eat and breathe. 21 years old, right at the dawn of life – in a wheelchair. Though, I wasn’t dead. I realized how different my future life shall be and all I could see was the painful reality. The will to live I’ve been building up to the present was gradually disappearing…
Drawing was my forever hobby, and going to Japan was a childhood fantasy. Then the idea was born: I’ll start from scratch, drawing, in Japan.
A slight light was finally emerging, in this terrible nightmare.
From that time on, I practiced walking with crutches without using a wheelchair as much as I possibly could. After a year and a half of daily hard practice, I was finally able to stand by myself. So that was it: “time has come.” I left for Japan alone, leaving my family in Dubai.” – Jérémy de Champris
Drastic change.
Left with no choice, Jérémy switched to the other skill he always ever had besides making music. Kept as a hobby since always, he restarted drawing.
September 2018 – Jérémy moved to Japan. Going to Japan was a fantasy Jérémy always kept to himself ever since his childhood. His ambitions turned into reality earlier than expected!
“Now, it will soon be 3 years that I live in Japan. Walking a lot and talking with people every day made my physical condition and my mind miraculously improve. The way I’ve been thinking a few years ago, I’m sure I’ll be able to live life again, someday. So here we are. I want it, so I will.” – Jérémy de Champris