My name is Felipe, alias Chien Champion. I'm an illustrator, visual artist, and director. Since 2020, I've been working full-time as a visual artist and illustrator.

I'm quite an extrovert, basically. I talk to people in the street since I was a kid. My parents used to take me to restaurants and I'd go talk to people at the table, I'd tell stories, I'd draw them. I was 7 or 8 years old, I was already in that spirit.

Sharing, that's what's inspires me. Sharing with people, that's the first thing that inspires me the most. I grew up in the Portuguese neighborhood in the Mile-End (Montreal). I remember that Portugal won a football (soccer) game at the World Cup. I was wearing my Portuguese jersey. I'd put up a Portuguese flag, like, « Hey, Portugal! » Like, we're together, with our neighbours and all that. Everyone would get together.

Mile-End is also a very Jewish neighborhood. There are Portuguese, Ukrainians, Italians, there were a lot of Chileans. There's a bit of everything, so everyone gathers. It all shapes who I am, and it's part of Montreal, the mix of cultures.

I love Montreal. It represents everything to me. Maybe the first word I said when I was a baby. No, but honestly, I embody it. Every day, I think about it or I say it. From my feet to the tip of my head, I defend this sentence.