In the reading Black Sound, Black Body, Waksman makes several points about who Jimi Hendrix was as an black musician, and what this meant for himself and others. The article talks about the last year of life, and how he spent this time to open a world of sound. Electric Lady was his greatest effort to get better control of sound and to move one-step further. In the Electric Lady studios, this was a place he could escape certain expectations as a black man performing for a mostly white audience. He could go here and loose himself in his own music. Sort of escaping himself as a celebrity, and surrounding himself with sound instead. Waksman talks about how Hendrix demonstrated blackness and his "brand" of music. He talks about Hendrix as a crossover;
