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June Carter Cash
American singer (1929–2003)
Musical artist
Valerie June Carter Cash (June 23, 1929 – May 15, 2003[1]) was an American country singer and songwriter. A five-time Grammy award-winner, she was a member of the Carter Family and the second wife of singer Johnny Cash. Prior to her marriage to Cash, she was known as June Carter and continued to be credited as such even after her marriage (as well as on songwriting credits predating it). She played gitarr, banjo, harmonica, and autoharp, and acted in several films and television shows. Carter Cash was inducted into the Christian Music Hall of Fame in 2009.[2]
Early life
[edit]June Carter Cash was born Valerie June Carter in Maces Spring, Virginia, to Maybelle (née Addington) and Ezra Carter. Her mother was a country music performer with June's aunt Sara and uncle A. P. Carter and she performed with the Carter Family from the age of 10, in 1939. In March 1943, when the Carter Family trio
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June Carter Cash
(1929-2003)
Who Was June Carter Cash?
June Carter Cash and her sisters performed as the Carter Sisters, with June singing and playing rhythm guitar. She and Johnny Cash had a number of hits, including "It Ain't Me Babe" and "If inom Were a Carpenter." She married Cash in 1968, and their story made it to the big screen in the Cash biopic Walk the Line 37 years later, with Reese Witherspoon playing Carter Cash.
Musical Background
Singer-songwriter June Carter Cash was born Valerie June Carter on June 23, 1929, in Maces Springs, Virginia. The daughter of Ezra Carter and Mother Maybelle Carter, June was a born into the first family of country music. She and her sisters, Helen and Anita, performed as the Carter Sisters, with June singing, playing autoharp and rhythm gitarr and keeping audiences entertained with her comedic wit.
In 1952, June married Carl Smith, with whom she performed at Nashville's Grand Ole Opry, and they had a daughter, Re
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Johnny Cash Described His Love for June Carter as 'Unconditional'. Inside Their Love Story
Their story inspired iconic love songs and was recreated in an Oscar-nominated film. Johnny and June Carter Cash became the torch-bearers of deep, passionate love – country-music style. But the lovebirds navigated rough waters leading up to and during their 35-year marriage which produced one son, multiple hit songs about heartache, adoration and redemption, and ended when they took their final mortal bows within four months of each other.
They were both married when they first met
Johnny and June first met backstage at Nashville, Tennessee’s Grand Ole Opry in 1956, though it would be a dozen years before they would become husband and wife. Carter had been aware of Cash through the recommendations of Elvis Presley, with whom she had been singing backup. “Elvis would make me go into these little cafes and listen to John [on the jukebox] when we played in the south – in the Carolinas and