Country musician Colt Ford, whose real name is Jason Farris Brown, suffered a severe heart attack that almost ended his life following a show in Phoenix on April 4.
Ford’s bio on his website describes him as a person who is “about God, family, friends, and America. I’m just a guy who loves life. I love people. I love knowing I could make a difference in somebody else’s life with a song.”
Colt Ford Gets a Second Chance at Life
During an interview on the “Big D & Bubba” show, Ford shared that he doesn’t remember a thing about the show he played before he collapsed while walking to his tour bus.
“It’s been just [a] traumatic crazy experience,” Ford told the nationally syndicated radio show. “I didn’t even remember coming out here to do a show in Phoenix, and apparently we played this great, sold-out show and it was incredible.”
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Ford then said he was told he “walked back to the bus, texted [his] fiancée, ‘Hi baby,’ and fell over dead.”
The 54-year-old country music star didn’t die once, but twice. He was taken to a hospital, where staff revived him, and he died again en route to a second hospital. “I died two times,” he explained. “Luckily, my band came out to check on me” due to it being really hot in the venue in which he just got done playing.
Ford also credited award-winning country musician, Brantley Gilbert, who was at the show, in assisting with saving his life because Gilbert helped get Ford to the hospital.
“God could not have had me in a better place,” Ford added. He informed Big D and Bubba that after he woke up in a hospital room two days later, the doctor told him, “I wouldn’t have given you 1%; I would have given you 0.1% that you would have survived.”
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