 Ford, like Jimi Hendrix, had synaesthesia, a condition where the person who can associate certain colours, or even see certain colours in relation to the sound they are hearing.An article about Emile Ford appears in the November 2004 issue of the "UK Synaesthesia Association Newsletter".He once said that he was gifted with the ability to see and hear sound differently from others and that gift allowed him to make first-class recordings.