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The eldest child of Johnny Cash and his first wife, Vivian Liberto, Rosanne Cash was born in Memphis, Tennessee on May 24, 1955. After her parents separated she and her three sisters grew up in California.

At 18 she joined The Johnny Cash Show, further absorbing his influence along with that of his legendary touring show partners Carl Perkins and the Carter Family. The Carter Family's June Carter later became Rosanne's stepmother when she married Cash in 1968.

Rosanne went on to study drama at Nashville's Vanderbilt University and at the Lee Strasberg Institute in Los Angeles before focusing on her music. In the 30 years since she has released 12 albums including Right or Wrong, Seven Year Ache,Somewhere in the Stars, Rhythm and Romance, King's Record Shop, Interiors, The Wheel, 10 Song Demo, Rules of Travel, Black Cadillac, and most recently, The List. She has also recorded 11 No. 1 singles, blurring the genres of country, rock, roots and pop. In 1985 she won the Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal Performance, Female, for her hit "I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me," and has received nine other nominations.

Her highly personal yet universally appealing writing style is also manifest in her parallel prose career. Rosanne published a collection of short stories, Bodies of Water, in 1995, and a children's book, Penelope Jane: A Fairy's Tale, in 2000. Composed, her long-awaited memoir, was published in 2010. Additionally, her essays and fiction have appeared in various collections and publications, including The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Time Magazine, The Oxford American and New York Magazine.

The mother of five children, Rosanne lives in New York City with her husband, producer and guitarist John Leventhal, and her youngest child.

For more:  Rosanne's Wikipedia entry

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August 31, 2009
photo: Sam Rayner This is my daughter Caitlin, at the Cavern Club in Liverpool. I passed on my love of the Beatles to all my children, and Caitlin was the first to actually visit the city where the band originated, and the club where they first played. She said that during her visit there she thought of me the whole time, and became very emotional. She fulfilled a dream I had had in my own youth, to see where my heroes had cut their musical teeth. I passed the dream on to her, and she passed it back to me.

photo: Sam Rayner

This is my daughter Caitlin, at the Cavern Club in Liverpool. I passed on my love of the Beatles to all my children, and Caitlin was the first to actually visit the city where the band originated, and the club where they first played.

She said that during her visit there she thought of me the whole time, and became very emotional. She fulfilled a dream I had had in my own youth, to see where my heroes had cut their musical teeth.
I passed the dream on to her, and she passed it back to me.

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