Rosanne Cash
Rosanne Cash ( born May 24, 1955 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American country music singer. It is particularly successful in their home country, where they brought it in the 1980s to eleven number - one singles on the country charts.
Life and career
Rosanne Cash is the oldest of four daughters of country singer Johnny Cash. After her parents divorced, she lived with her mother Vivian Liberto in California. Following her schooling she joined the Johnny Cash Roadshow, in which she appeared as a background singer for three years.
Rosanne Cash in 1975 spent a year in London, where she worked in the office of Columbia Records, the record company that her father had under contract. There followed several semesters studying acting at American universities and institutes. In 1978 she produced the album Rosanne Cash in Munich for Ariola. A year later, she played an album Right or Wrong for Columbia. Producer was the singer / songwriter Rodney Crowell, whom she married shortly thereafter and who also produced their following albums.
War Right or Wrong including various single releases only average success Rosanne Cash Seven Year Ache in 1981, reached her first career highlight. The album was awarded a gold record, and all three single releases made it to the top of the country charts. The largely written by Rosanne Cash songs were increasingly personal and autobiographical. Were particularly clearly in the dark, the album produced by herself Interiors with songs like On The Surface or Mirror Image, which was created in 1990 shortly before the separation from her husband.
The next album Wheels of 1993 has pronounced autobiographical character, even for this cash wrote the songs themselves, the pop - oriented Wheels with catchy melodies and arrangements affects more optimistic than its predecessor. Johnny Cash said about it: "If it driven me once on a desert island and I could only take one CD, I would pick Wheels. " Since 1995, she is married to the American guitarist and producer John Leventhal.
Mid-1990s, Rosanne began writing and published in 1996 a book of short stories. During this time, she lost due to an illness temporarily the voice and had to stop work on the CD Rules of Travel, which went on sale in 2003.
2006 saw the album Black Cadillac, which she dedicated her parents and her stepmother, June Carter Cash, who had all died since the publication of her last CD. In some melancholic songs they had, beginning with the death of her father in the title track, memories and scenes from their lives pass in review, including her father's time as a military radio operator (Radio Operator), whose acquaintance with his first wife ( I Was Watching You ) and Johnny Cash's residence with his second wife in Hendersonville ( House on the Lake ). The last track on the CD is from 71 seconds of silence for her - both died at the age of 71 years - parents.
End of 2009, Rosanne Cash released their twelfth studio album, The List. According to her, it contains twelve songs from a list drawn up by her father Johnny Cash 1973 100 Title comprehensive list of the most important country songs. You received this list to their 18th birthday. The album only contains cover versions, including Bruce Springsteen, the Carter Family, Merle Haggard and Bob Dylan. Guest musicians include Rufus Wainwright, Jeff Tweedy, Bruce Springsteen and Elvis Costello heard.
Others
Rosanne Cash plays Acoustic Guitars preferred the manufacturer Gibson and CF Martin.
Works
All recordings published, unless otherwise specified, on Columbia Records.
Albums
Compilations
- Rosanne Cash: Bodies of water. Hyperion, New York 1996. ISBN 0-7868-6083-9
- Rosanne Cash; G. Brian Karas (Illustrator): Penelope Jane: A Fairy 's tale. Joanna Cotler Books, New York 2000. ISBN 0-0602-7543- X
- Rosanne Cash ( eds.): without rhyme songs: prose by Celebrated songwriters. Hyperion, New York, 2001. ISBN 0-7868-6277-7