When Travis Davidson took the stage to perform at the ReelMusic Festival in Houston on February 22, it was a triumphant and profound celebration of life after his near-death experience. Travis admits he once was headed down a self-destructive life path.
He spent time in prison in Louisiana for selling drugs. He’d just been released when his family held an intervention, trying to convince him he needed to straighten himself out. A week later, the wreck happened. While driving, he overcorrected trying to avoid a tractor. His vehicle flipped. He was ejected. He only survived after being flown urgently to the hospital. He was placed into the intensive care unit and then a medically induced coma.
When he woke up two weeks later, he was quadriplegic. The wreck resulted in a spinal cord injury that robbed him of his ability to walk and move. His mother lives in Houston and knew it was important for him to receive the best care possible so she worked to get him transferred to TIRR Memorial Hermann.
He has worked hard and remains in therapy at TIRR Memorial Hermann and has regained some movement of his hands and arms. He’s able now to feed himself and put on his own shirt again without assistance.
The experience changed him. He found his faith and his calling as a rapper and composer. He has recorded several songs which are motivational in nature, focused on inclusiveness and acceptance of others who might be different:
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