Rosanne Cash

Rosanne Cash (born May 24, 1955) is an American country singer and songwriter. She is one of the daughters of Johnny Cash and his first wife, neé Vivian Liberto, born shortly before the release of h

Rosanne Cash (born May 24, 1955) is an American country singer and songwriter. She is one of the daughters of Johnny Cash and his first wife, neé Vivian Liberto, born shortly before the release of her father's first single. In many ways, her career reflects the changes in country music since the birth of the rock and roll era.

Born in 1955 in Memphis, Tennessee, Cash grew up Catholic in southern California, but moved to Nashville after her high school graduation. She worked in her father's road show before setting out on her own. Cash released her first single, a duet with Bobby Bare, in 1979, and had her first No. 1, "Seven Year Ache," two years later. She married Rodney Crowell, who produced most of her hit records, in 1979. Their stormy marriage lasted until 1992; its break-up is chronicled in Cash's Interiors and in Crowell's album Life Is Messy. Cash later married producer, John Leventhal, who produced her albums The Wheel (on which many of the songs were also based on her relationship with Crowell) and 10 Song Demo. Though Cash was a prominent country star throughout the '80s, her music was anything but traditional: she topped the charts with songs written not only by herself, but by her father ("Tennessee Flat Top Box"), John Hiatt ("The Way We Make A Broken Heart"), Tom Petty ("Never Be You") and the Beatles ("I Don't Want To Spoil The Party"), as well. "I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me", which won her a Grammy in 1985, and "It's Such a Small World", a 1987 duet with Crowell, provided further hits. All of these songs and more are included on the compilation Hits 1979-1989.