1. Rosanne Cash was born on May 24,1955 and is an American singer-songwriter and author.
67 Facts About Rosanne Cash
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Rosanne Cash is the eldest daughter of country musician Johnny Cash and his first wife, Vivian Cash.
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In 1990, Rosanne Cash released Interiors, a spare, introspective album that signaled a break from her pop-country past.
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Rosanne Cash has continued to write, record, and perform, having since released six albums, written three books, and edited a collection of short stories.
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Rosanne Cash won a Grammy Award in 1985 for "I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me" and has received 12 other Grammy nominations.
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Rosanne Cash was the 2014 recipient of Smithsonian magazine's American Ingenuity Award, in the Performing Arts category.
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Rosanne Cash was born in 1955 in Memphis, Tennessee, to Vivian and Johnny Rosanne Cash, when Johnny was recording his first tracks at Sun Records.
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Rosanne Cash's mother was Vivian Cash, known to be of maternal Irish, German, and African-American ancestry, and paternal Sicilian.
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Rosanne Cash grew up Catholic and her paternal Liberto grandparents were immigrants from Cefalu, Palermo.
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The Rosanne Cash couple married in San Antonio, Texas, where Vivian was born and raised.
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Vivian attracted attention as Johnny Rosanne Cash became a star because some observers believed her appearance reflected African-American ancestry, and interracial marriage was illegal in the South.
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Rosanne Cash grew up in Sicilian-American culture in San Antonio, went to white schools in the segregated state, and was registered as white on her marriage license, among other documentation of her family's racial status as white.
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Rosanne Cash's parents separated in 1962, and Cash and her sisters were raised by their mother Vivian in the isolated, rural location.
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Rosanne Cash first worked as a wardrobe assistant, then as a background vocalist and occasional soloist.
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Rosanne Cash made her studio recording debut on Johnny Cash's 1974 album The Junkie and the Juicehead Minus Me, singing lead vocal on a version of Kris Kristofferson's "Broken Freedom Song".
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In 1976, Johnny Cash recorded Rosanne's song "Love Has Lost Again" on his album One Piece At A Time.
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Rosanne Cash relocated to Los Angeles to study at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in Hollywood.
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Rosanne Cash recorded her self-titled debut album in 1978, but Ariola never released it in the United States.
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Rosanne Cash began playing with Crowell's band The Cherry Bombs in California clubs.
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That year Rosanne Cash started work on her first Columbia LP.
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Rosanne Cash's career picked up considerable momentum with the release of her second album, Seven Year Ache, in 1981.
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Rosanne Cash struggled with substance abuse during this period of time; in 1984 she sought medical treatment.
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Rosanne Cash continued to record and in 1987 released the most critically acclaimed album of her career, King's Record Shop.
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Rosanne Cash was named Billboard's Top Singles Artist of the year.
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In 1990, Rosanne Cash released the critically acclaimed, deeply personal Interiors.
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Rosanne Cash produced herself for the first time and wrote or co-wrote all the songs.
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In 1991 Rosanne Cash relocated to New York City; in 1992, she and Crowell divorced.
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Rosanne Cash signed with Capitol Records and in 1996 released 10 Song Demo, a collection of stark home recordings with minimal accompaniment.
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Rosanne Cash pursued a career as a writer and in 1996 Hyperion published the short story collection Bodies of Water to favorable reviews.
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In 1997, Rosanne Cash was awarded an honorary doctorate from Memphis College of Art.
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Rosanne Cash has continued to speak publicly on writing and music.
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Rosanne Cash published a children's book, Penelope Jane: A Fairy's Tale, which included an exclusive CD and was published by HarperCollins.
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Rosanne Cash was an inaugural member of the Independent Music Awards' judging panel to support independent artists.
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In 2006, Rosanne Cash released Black Cadillac, an album marking the losses of both her stepmother June, and father Johnny, who both died in 2003.
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Rosanne Cash created a multimedia performance, with video, imagery and narration drawn from the songs and from her family history.
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In 2006, a short documentary by filmmaker Steve Lippman, "Mariners and Musicians", based on the album and interviews with Rosanne Cash, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was screened at festivals worldwide.
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Rosanne Cash's music was featured prominently in an American Masters biography of photographer Annie Leibovitz.
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Rosanne Cash had photographed Cash and her family numerous times.
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In late 2007, Rosanne Cash underwent brain surgery for a rare condition and was forced to cancel her remaining concert dates.
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Rosanne Cash released her next studio album, entitled The List, on October 6,2009.
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The album is based on a list of 100 greatest country and American songs that Johnny Rosanne Cash gave her when she was 18.
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Rosanne Cash has appeared on tribute albums to The Band, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Jimi Hendrix, John Hiatt, Kris Kristofferson, Laura Nyro, Yoko Ono, Doc Pomus, and Tammy Wynette.
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The tourism organization Brand USA enlisted Rosanne Cash to develop a song to promote foreign tourism to the United States.
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On February 6,2012, Rosanne Cash received the AFTRA Media and Entertainment Excellence Award in Sound Recordings.
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Rosanne Cash sang the part of Monique on the 2013 album Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, a collaboration between rock singer John Mellencamp and novelist Stephen King.
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Rosanne Cash signed with Blue Note Records in 2013 to release a new original album.
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Rosanne Cash's father married June Carter in 1968, who had two daughters.
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Rosanne Cash married her second husband, John Leventhal, in 1995, and they have one son, Jakob.
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In February 2021, Rosanne Cash appeared as a guest on Finding Your Roots, the PBS TV series hosted by historian Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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On November 27,2007, Rosanne Cash was admitted to New York's Presbyterian Hospital for brain surgery.
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Rosanne Cash wrote about the experience in her New York Times article "Well, Actually, It Is Brain Surgery".
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Rosanne Cash resumed writing, recording and performing in late summer of 2008.
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Rosanne Cash is a longtime board member of The Center To Prevent Youth Violence, formally known as PAX, an organization dedicated to preventing gun violence among children.
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Rosanne Cash was honored by PAX at their fifth annual benefit gala in 2005.
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Rosanne Cash is a frequent guest teacher at the English and Songwriting programs of various colleges and universities including LeMoyne, Fairleigh-Dickinson and NYU.
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Rosanne Cash has been associated with Children, Incorporated for more than 25 years and has sponsored many children through the organization, which works to support and educate needy children and young adults worldwide.
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The Rosanne Cash family has supported the restoration by raising money through annual music festivals.
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Rosanne Cash resumed rotating host duties with her half-brother John Carter when the festival resumed at Dyess in 2017.
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In 2014 Rosanne Cash contributed essays to the Oxford-American and the book of collected essays edited by Sari Botton Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers On Their Unshakable Love For New York.
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Rosanne Cash was featured in Gael Towey's Portraits in Creativity as a featured artist for her Profile Series.
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Rosanne Cash is a dedicated supporter of artists' rights in the digital age and sits on the board of the Content Creators Coalition.
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On June 25,2014, Rosanne Cash testified before The House of Representatives, Judiciary Committee on intellectual property rights and Internet music licensing.
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In 2018, Rosanne Cash was a recipient of an honorary doctorate degree from Berklee College of Music.
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Rosanne Cash's work has appeared in The New York Times, The Oxford American, New York Magazine, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, and Martha Stewart Living.
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Grammy Awards To date, Rosanne Cash has been nominated for 15 Grammy Awards across four genre categories: Country, Folk, Pop and American Roots.
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In 2021, Rosanne Cash was awarded The Edward MacDowell Medal by The MacDowell Colony for outstanding contributions to American culture.
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On May 7,2022, Rosanne Cash was awarded an honorary doctorate degree in Humane Letters by Arkansas State University.