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Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow: A Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix

sounds like a rainbow : a story of the young Jimi Hendrix

written by Gary Golio, illustrated by Javaka Steptoe

32 pages · 2010

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About the book

Before he became one of the greatest guitar players of all time, Jimi Hendrix was a boy who loved to paint and listen to records, and who asked himself an unusual question: could someone paint pictures with sound?

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