Roseanne Cash

[Kaz ~:~]

Rosanne Cash

Date of Birth 24 May 1955, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

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Spouses
John Leventhal (30 April 1995 - present) (1 child)

Rodney Crowell (7 April 1979 - 1992) (divorced) (3 children)

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Daughter of Johnny Cash and Vivian Liberto.

Step-daughter of June Carter Cash

Older sister of Tara Cash, Cindy Cash and Kathy Cash.

Older half-sister of John Carter Cash. Older stepsister of Carlene Carter and Rosey Nix Adams.

Children: Caitlin Rivers Crowell (born in 1980), Chelsea Jane Crowell (born in 1982), Carrie Kathleen Crowell (born in 1988), Jakob William Leventhal (born in 1999).

Her and Jimmy Tittle's composition "On the Surface" was recorded by Bettye LaVette on Lavette's 2005 CD, "I've Got My Own Hell to Raise" (Anti). Cash's original recording appears on her 1990 CD, "Interiors" (Sony).

She is of Scottish and Italian heritage.

Set to have brain surgery for Arnold-Chiari malformation, a rare but benign condition, at the New York Presbyterian Hospital [November 6, 2007].

In 1981 her hit song "Seven Year Ache" did not, as many expected it to, win a Grammy for Best Song. In 1985 she wrote "I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me", about not winning the Grammy. The song won a Grammy.
Release of her memoirs, "Composed". [August 2010]

Her music career began shortly after finishing high school. When she told her father she would like to become a musician, he took her on tour and gave her a list of one-hundred essential songs she should know. It later became the subject of her album 'The List'