Artist:Elesia iimura

ELESIA iiMURA ​was born and raised in Australia until she was 18-years-old. Then she moved to Japan with her father in her early adulthood. “I grew up embracing two completely different backgrounds. During my childhood, my mom raised me and my siblings in Australia and we visited my father in Japan,” she says. ELESIA had a spiritual background through her mother’s Buddhist teachings. ELESIA and her siblings went to temple in the mountains for yoga and meditation. Her rock star father—a member of the band Bon Bon—provided a 180-degree difference in lifestyle. “I remember being on stage at the age of five, watching him shred the guitar to thousands of fans. He was inspirational to me and exposed me to music like ​Jimi Hendrix and ​Michael Jackson​,” says ELESIA. The spotlight became ELESIA’s calling. She enjoyed a brief modeling career; appearing in an ad campaign for Converse in Japan was a highlight. Yet it was the seed ELESIA’s father planted that made her fall in love with the ...