Wayne Jernigan

Wayne Jernigan founded Reflection Sound Studios in 1969, when, trying to save a faltering marriage, he left a high-prestige and lucrative musician’s gig in Nashville to open a recording studio in Charlotte. He started at a dingy spot on South Boulevard and moved five years later to 1018 Central Avenue, where Plaza Midwood meets Elizabeth, just across the street from the Salvation Army Thrift Store. Reflection Sound Studios remained standing until August 2014, when construction crews turned it into rubble to make way for a new apartment complex and Wayne retired, stating “The last thing I wanted to do,” he said, “was be an 80-year-old trying to sell studio time to a 20-year-old.”