Johnny Cash Research Paper

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Johnny cash Born:
Johnny cash was born on February 26 in 1932 in Kingsland. He has six siblings he had five older siblings and one younger sibling.
Early year:
Johnny cash was not born with that name, he was born whit the name J.R cash. When Cash enlisted in the United States Air Force, he was not permitted to use initials as a first name, so he changed his name to John R. Cash.
In May 1935 the cash family moved to Dyess. In Dyess he started to work on a cotton field in the ages of five. On the cotton fields he started to sing whit his family. Marriage:
In 1954 Johnny met Vivian Liberto, she was 17 years old. They dated for three weeks, then he was deployed to Germany for three years.
One month after Johnny came
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And they got married 1.march in 1968. They had one child named john carter cash.
Career:
In 1954, Cash and Vivian moved to Memphis. At night, he played with the Tennessee two (with guitarist Luther Perkins and bassist Marshall Grant).
Cash went to visit the Sun Records studio, hoping to get a recording contract. After auditioning mostly gospel songs, they told him that they didn't record gospel music any more. He come back later and he got a contract.
His first song was named “cry,cry,cry” and “hey porter”. They were made in 1955.
Cash's next record, "Folsom Prison Blues", made the country Top 5, and "I Walk the Line" became No. 1 on the country charts and entered the pop charts Top 20. That same year Cash became the first Sun artist to release a long-playing album. Although he was Sun's bestseller and artist at that time
Death
Hurt was a song he borrowed from nine-inch nail. This was his last song recorded and many people said this was his god bye song
Johnny cash died 15.september in 2003 he was 71 years old and he died 5 month after his wife june carter. He was barried beside of june.
Songs:
So this is one of his best and first

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