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Johnny Cash (* February 26 1932 as JR Cash in Kingsland , Arkansas , USA†September 12 2003 in Nashville, Tennessee , USA ) was one of the most influential American Country-singer , and-hicka-boom” sound of his backing band Tennessee Three known and his critical and unconventional texts. His musical spectrum ranges from the 1950s with country , gospel , rockabilly , blues , folk and pop up to the Alt-Country beginning of the 21st Century. His concerts are legendary in the prisons of Folsom and San Quentin late 60s .
Johnny Cash, who was known as “Man in Black”, has written about 500 songs, sold more than 53 million records and has been with 13 Grammy Awards honored.
JR Cash was the son of Raymond Cash penniless farmer and his wife, Carrie Rivers Cash. His first name is actually “J. R. “and was a compromise between the preferred by the mother,” John “and” Ray “for his father. Three years after his birth the family moved to a farm in Dyess, Arkansas to the family in the New Deal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt had been made available to low. At the age of six years, Cash has worked in the cotton fields. Johnny Cash had six children: Roy, Louise, Jack, Reba, Joanne and Tommy . His two-year older brother Jack died in May 1944 at the age of 14 years in an accident with a circular saw.
Johnny Cash’s mother gave him his first guitar when he was ten years old, and he received during this time also some singing lessons. In May 1950, Cash had the occasion of his graduation ceremony at the high school as a first solo performance singer. After leaving school he worked among others on the assembly line of Fisher-car factory in Pontiac (Michigan) and in a margarine factory in Texas .
1950 cash went to the Air Force , where he changed his first name to “John R.”, because the army does not accept initials as first name, and a year later as a radio operator on a listening post at Landsberg am Lech in Bavaria stationed. Here he formed his first band, the Landsberg Barbarians and wrote Folsom Prison Blues , after seeing the movie Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison had seen.
After completing his military service in Germany with the rank of sergeant in 1954 after Johnny Cash took Memphis (Tennessee) and married two years younger, Vivian Liberto, whom he in 1951 in San Antonio had met. From this marriage his daughter Rosanne , who was born in 1955, a year later, Kathleen, 1959 and 1961, then Cindy finally Tara.
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