David Francisco is an accomplished singer/songwriter, musician, producer, recording engineer, and spinal cord injury, survivor. After graduating from the University of Tennessee with a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2014 but would forego a traditional career in engineering to instead pursue music creation as his full-time endeavor. David was accepted to the world-renowned Blackbird Academy in Nashville Tennessee.

 

Three weeks after moving to Nashville on, April 27, 2016, tragedy struck. While riding his bicycle home from school, David was t-boned by a distracted driver who ran a red light at a busy intersection, and David was paralyzed from the waist down. 

 

After a year of intense physical therapy, David returned to Nashville in January 2017 walking. He graduated from the Blackbird Academy in June 2017. His journey is documented in the short film "Back To Blackbird"