Janie Hendrix, the sister of JIMI HENDRIX and CEO of Experience Hendrix LLC, the company that controls Jimi's music, spoke to Undercover on the eve of the release of the new Hendrix project Valleys Of Neptune.

Janie was 9-years old when Jimi died. She recalled the exact moment she found out her brother died for Undercover.com.au. “I was still in grade-school. My parents got the call and they were still in bed. They didn’t think I would find out,” she tells Undercover Music News. “They just figured they would tell me when I got home. So I went to school. There were kids who lived closer to the school than I did so they left later and heard the news. It was “show and tell” day. One kid got up and said, “today Jimi Hendrix died”.

“My teacher knew I didn’t know so she made him sit down. I really didn’t believe it because a month prior there was a rumour that something had happened to him. We called him and he said he was fine.

“I remember walking home from school and coming up the hill and I recall thinking to myself when I turn the corner if there are a lot of cars in front of my house then it must be true. I remember walking slower and slower and slower and when I turned the corner my whole street was flooded with cars.

“I remember walking into my house and my mom was standing there and I said I wanted to go over to a friend’s house for a birthday party and she said 'honey you can’t.' Just then my dad swooped in like a superhero, grabbed me and took me into a room and was crying. He said 'Jimi died and life will never be the same for us.' That moment I can still feel. I can be in that room in that house at 9-years old remembering how all of that felt seeing everybody sobbing, seeing everybody sad. I was angry. I really didn’t want to believe it. It was surreal.”

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