Bob Gifford

Location: Maimi, FL

Challenge: Acquired Brain Injury

Website: facebook.com/1armguitar

Bob Gifford was raised most of his young life on sharecroppers farm 20 miles east of Deming, New Mexico.

When he was 5 years old he gave a Mexican migrant worker $10.00 in change "all my cotton picking money" and he brought Bob back an acoustic guitar from Mexico.

When Bob was 17, he joined the Army for a 2 years hitch after boot camp and AIT training and was stationed in Germany, there he bought my first electric guitar a Gibson SG.

At age 26 he had a brain hemorrhage deep in the right side of his brain, Never to play guitar again. Bob was totally paralyzed on his entire left side, partially from the Aneurism but mostly from two brain surgeries he'd had.

When Bob turned 50, he decided to try and play the guitar again using only his right hand.

Bob says "These days I play open mike at clubs or I play on the streets of South Beach for tips. there is no meaningful money in busking I find it to be a humbling and rewarding experience. It provides me with money for gas parking fees and a Ham sandwich with a soda. lol... not that there is anything wrong with that. I have lived in south Florida for the past 26 years I am still trying to learn how to play guitar with one hand it continues to be a slow painful on the fingertip process".

Bob Gifford - "Turn up them blues"