Guitarist Learns To Play Again After Losing All 4 Limbs

(TeamRock Radio) A quadruple amputee from New Zealand has learned to play the guitar after losing his limbs to meningococcal septicaemia. Ripu Bhatia, a 22-year-old journalism student from Auckland, was diagnosed with the blood poisoning disease last July - and he feared he would never make music again.

But he was determined to get back to making music and developed a way to make it happen. He tells Music Feeds Australia: "I first picked up a guitar when I was 13 years old and just starting high school. I was really into the 90s alternative music scene at the time, and was listening to bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam and The Smashing Pumpkins.
"Guitar wasn't something that came naturally to me at all. I took music as a subject at school and it didn't take me long to realise that there wasn't really anything special about me.

"I failed practically every assignment and my lack of confidence meant I struggled with performing." Bhatia continues: "But the last 12 months presented a challenge to me like none I had faced before. I was initially resigned to the fact that I wouldn't be able to play guitar again." Read more here.

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