Phil Ajjarapu

It took a near-death experience to launch Phil Ajjarapu's solo career. A multi-instrumentalist session musician, veteran of countless bands, and classic pop aficionado, the Austin-based musician was on lunch break from his job as assistant choir director at a local high school when he lost control of his motorcycle and plunged 25 feet off a highway overpass into the traffic below. By all accounts, he should have died, yet he miraculously awoke five days later in the hospital and began an inspired recovery that would lead the career sideman to finally make his first solo album....