Johnny Cash on stage, ca. 1960. 20th Century Fox. limited
American singer, guitarist and composer, raised 1935 in Dyess, Arkansas. Johnny Cash made his first recordings for Sun Records in 1955 (the single Hey Porter / Cry, Cry, Cry), and soon became a leading name in country music. Several of his songs have become classics of the genre, for example. Folsom Prison Blues (1956), I Walk The Line (1956), Ring Of Fire (1963) and A Boy Named Sue. The latter is a recording of the second of Cash's famous prison concerts, Folsom Prison (1968) and San Quentin (1969), and are joined by A Thing Called Love (1972) his biggest hits in the UK.
Johnny Cash was known as an advocate for the regular man and woman, and for marginalized