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Jeff, Seb and Pierre’s brother Jay discuss new album & charitable Strangers In The Night event on Global News

Yesterday morning, August 15th, Sebastien Lefebvre, Jeff Stinco and Pierre’s brother Jay Bouvier appeared together in a segment on Global News Morning Montreal show in order to discuss their involvement in the upcoming Strangers In The Night event, where they will perform next Saturday, August 24th in Pierrefonds, Canada.

Jay Bouvier, a lymphoma cancer survivor (also the reason behind the song ‘Save You’), has been an active speaker about surviving and overcoming his illness for years now, often working hand in hand with Lymphoma Canada, which is one of the benefiting charities of this charitable gala alongside the Simple Plan Foundation and Friends for Mental Health.

Besides their charitable activities, Jeff and Seb also hinted on the fact that they are currently in the studio working on the 6th Simple Plan record, which (according to Seb) should be coming out “soon” and the fans should first hear some new music hopefully either by the end of 2019 or in the very beginning of 2020.

Check out Jeff, Seb and Jay discuss this event and their new album on the video below:

Pierre’s brother Jay discusses his journey with lymphoma on BT Montreal

Yesterday, to support the World Lymphoma Awareness Day, Jay Bouvier, Pierre Bouvier’s brother, who went through lymphoma cancer about 10 years ago [and who inspired Simple Plan’s song ‘Save You’], appeared as a guest on the morning show Breakfast Television Montreal.

In the beginning of the spot, the connection between Jay and the Simple Plan song was made and Jay then talked about his journey with cancer and how he became a cancer survivor in the end and now helps support various related causes by discussing this illness publicly and in this case supporting the upcoming Take It To The Mat event supported by Lymphoma Canada.

Check out Jay’s segment on BT Montreal below:

HQ picture of the Bouvier brothers shoot for Portraits of Hope

A couple weeks back we found out that Pierre’s brother’s Jay’s story is featured in the new book by William Brock called “Portraits Of Hope”, which has been released last summer to share stories of various cancer survivors. You can now check out one of the pictures of the three Bouvier brothers – Pierre, Jay and Jonathan – that is included in the book, in high quality (courtesy of William Brock):

“Portraits Of Hope”: story of cancer survivors features Jay Bouvier

Earlier this year, William Brock, a cancer survivor, has released a new book called “Portraits of Hope”/, which documents the story of his own and also of other cancer survivors and those, who accompanied them on their journey to being cancer-free. The proceeds of the book are going to the William Brock Fund for Research and Education into Blood Cancers and also to the Maisonneuve-Rosemont hospital and the readers of the book will be able to get an insight on the emotional stories of people like Saku Koivu, John Gomery, Paul Henderson and also Jay Bouvier.

Jay Bouvier, brother of Simple Plan’s lead singer Pierre, has been diagnosed with non-hodgkins lymphoma cancer in 2006 but thanks to medical treatment and transplant of bone marrow with their other brother Jonathan being the donor, Jay was officially declared cancer free in 2007 and has been healthy ever since. If you want to know more about Pierre’s story, I encourage you to read his very in-depth blog about his brother’s disease he posted on MySpace in 2008.

The feeling of being so trapped and having no way how to help his brother, has inspired Pierre to write a song about it – Save You, released on the self-tiled Simple Plan record in 2008. Both Jay and Pierre’s Dad have been a part of the music video for the song as well.

The book “Portraits of Hope” doesn’t include only Jay but also his two brothers – Pierre and Jonathan, and even mentions the lyrics to the song “Save You”. You can check out some of the pictures of the three Bouvier brothers that are featured in the book in the gallery:

Currently, the book is being given for free to the cancer patients and the employees of the Maisonneuve-Rosemont hospital in Montreal, Canada, signed by some of the featured cancer survivors, including Jay Bouvier.

For more info about the book, go to portraitsofhope.ca.