This story was originally published on MyNorthwest.com.
From a young boy raised in poverty in Seattle to close out the original Woodstock Music Festival in 1969 to landing in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992, 2025 marks the year Jimi Hendrix receives the Washington State Medal of Merit and Valor.
According to a press release from Washington State’s Secretary of State Steve Hobbs, the posthumous honor was awarded to Hendrix as a “national and international recognition.”…