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@chrishart_official : #MyHistory #Part3 It was about this time 10 years ago that I began my preparation for my relocation to Japan. Something I had worked on for 10 years finally came around, and I got the chance to work in Japan. It wasn’t necessarily how I imagined I would get here, but a chance is a chance. I stopped band activities, packed up my equipment, and sold off everything I wasn’t taking with me. I didn’t even consider what I would do if I ever needed to go back to the states because, in my mind, it was absolutely a one-way trip. I closed my bank accounts, sold my car, and went to start a new life. It is hard to describe what it means to start life over in a new country as a young adult. I was 24, and still adjusting to adult life. While navigating adult life, I also now had to adjust to the new culture, language, and situations. I worked for a company that specialized in automated retail. As soon as I got to Japan, I then had to start traveling around Japan to install and tend to various machines. Learning all these technical terms in Japanese, and continuing music at the same time while traveling the country every week was hard. You don’t really notice how lonely things can be until everyone you know is an ocean away, and no one is there to help you figure out the new things that come up. Within a year of moving here, I found opportunities to sing. After appearing on a TV show on Tokyo MX, I met an incredible Vocal Teacher who became an incredible source of support. I knew I wanted to take on whatever came up, so despite my anxiety over being a solo artist in Japan, I practiced music by putting videos up on Youtube and began performing at various live houses each month in between my busy work schedule. There were many days where I’d work for 24 hours, traveling and repairing machines, then come back to Tokyo to do rehearsals and live shows. Plenty of times I pushed myself beyond my limits, and felt like quitting, but the momentum did its thing and more opportunities came.