Peter Noone
English singer-songwriter and actor
Rosanne Cash, the eldest daughter of country legend Johnny Cash, is an acclaimed singer-songwriter and author who has seamlessly blended various genres in her music. With a string of hit singles, Grammy awards, and a prolific writing career, she has established herself as a versatile and influential figure in the music industry.
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About the Rosanne Cash
Rosanne Cashis an American singer-songwriter and author. She is the eldest daughter of country musician Johnny Cash and his first wife Vivian Cash.
Although Cash is often classified as a country artist, her music draws from many genres, including folk, pop, rock, blues and, most notably, Americana. In the 1980s, she had a string of genre-crossing singles that entered both the country and pop charts, the most commercially successful being her 1981 breakthrough hit “Seven Year Ache”. It topped the U.S. country singles chart and reached the Top 30 on the U.S. pop chart.
In 1990, Cash released Interiors, a spare, introspective album that signaled a break from her pop-country past. The following year she ended her marriage to songwriter Rodney Crowell.
She moved from Nashville to New York City. She has continued to write, record, and perform, having since released six albums, written three books, and edited a collection of short stories. Her fiction and essays have been published in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Oxford American, New York Magazine, and other periodicals and collections.
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. She has had 11 No. 1 country hit singles, 21 Top 40 country singles, and two gold records. Cash was the 2014 recipient of Smithsonian magazine’s American Ingenuity Award, in the Performing Arts category.
On February 8, 2015, Cash won three Grammy awards: for Best Americana Album for The River & the Thread, Best American Roots Song, with John Leventhal; and Best American Roots Performance for her album A Feather’s Not A Bird. Cash was honored further in October that year, when she was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.
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Rosanne Cash was born on May 24, 1955.
Rosanne Cash is the daughter of country musician Johnny Cash and his first wife Vivian Cash. Although often classified as a country artist, her music draws from various genres including folk, pop, rock, blues, and Americana.
Rosanne Cash’s biggest hit song was ,Seven Year Ache,, which topped the U.S. country singles chart and reached the Top 30 on the U.S. pop chart in 1981.
Rosanne Cash has won one Grammy Award, for ,I Don’t Know Why You Don’t Want Me, in 1985, and has received 12 other Grammy nominations.
Rosanne Cash has had 11 No. 1 country hit singles, 21 Top 40 country singles, and two gold records. She was also the 2014 recipient of Smithsonian magazine’s American Ingenuity Award in the Performing Arts category.
In 2015, Rosanne Cash won three Grammy awards: for Best Americana Album for The River & the Thread, Best American Roots Song, and Best American Roots Performance. She was also inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame that year.
Rosanne Cash’s music has evolved from her pop country past, with her 1990 album Interiors signaling a more introspective and sparse sound. She has continued to write, record, and perform, while also publishing three books and editing a collection of short stories.
28 Quotes by Rosanne Cash
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No, my step-daughter just opened a theatre school for children, I have another daughter who works in the record industry and another who is going back to collage and I have two little ones at home.
Rosanne CashAmerican singer-songwriter
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Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it.
Rosanne CashAmerican singer-songwriter
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For the first time in 23 years I’m enjoying the process of supporting it, of going out and doing shows, and doing the interviews, and doing everything.
Rosanne CashAmerican singer-songwriter
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I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis.
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Well, the first year I lost my voice I didn’t mind so much because I was going to have a baby and I was distracted with him anyway, I didn’t even think about it that much, well, OK, this is what’s happening.
Rosanne CashAmerican singer-songwriter
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I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.
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The new record started out being about loss, but it’s morphed into being about how relationships go on even though one person is not in a body anymore.
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But there’s nothing that gives me more thrill than when I’m writing and a couplet works. I find the right rhyme, or it’s just perfect. There’s nothing that exciting.
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It’s a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me.
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The key to change… is to let go of fear.
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Yeah, I was in the phase for the last ten years or so where every record I made I said OK, that’s the last one, I don’t want to record anymore, I don’t want to do this any more, I don’t want to have a public life.
Rosanne CashAmerican singer-songwriter
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My record label is treating me like I’m a new artist, which is exciting after all this time.
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I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn’t sing.
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Once your kids get older and get out of the house, it’s not like it stops. They’re on the phone with me every day; I’m intimately involved in their problems.
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I think it is wrong that we went against The U.N. and that we have alienated our allies and invaded a country that hasn’t threatened us, that it is a pre-emptive strike.
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If a relationship is founded on love it doesn’t end.
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Because I was starting out in my 20’s. I wanted to do it on my own. I didn’t want to use my dad or have people say I was using him.
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And I don’t think that success is going to destroy me at this point in my life, like I used to think.
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It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.
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Every person’s every action has an effect.
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I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do.
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I do not believe in terrorism, violence, destruction, murder, pre-emption, or War.
Rosanne CashAmerican singer-songwriter
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War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves.
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I was down with Lucinda Williams and Mary Chapin-Carpenter. We did an acoustic tour, just the three of us, three chicks and three guitars.
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And I kind of said to myself if I get my voice back I’m not going to take back the old anxiety about it and just focus on the limitations. I’m really going to enjoy it.
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When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they’re still coming.
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I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.
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I love mixing up my genres.
Rosanne CashAmerican singer-songwriter