Rosanne Cash

Overview

Rosanne Cash was born on May 24, 1955 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. She is an actress and composer, known for The Little Rascals (1994), Rosanne Cash feat. Chely Wright: Sister, Oh Sister (2012) and Angie (1994). She has been married to John Leventhal since April 30, 1995. They have one child. She was previously married to Rodney Crowell.

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.
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'.
Set to have brain surgery for Arnold-Chiari malformation, a rare but benign condition, at the New York Presbyterian Hospital [November 6, 2007].
Her ancestry includes Scottish, English, Scots-Irish, and, from her maternal grandfather, Sicilian/Italian (his parents were from Cefalù, Palermo). Also, on the show Finding Your Roots (2012), Rosanne discovered that one of her third times maternal great-grandmothers, Sarah A. Shields, was a mixed-race woman whose own father, a white slaveowner, freed her and his other eight children from slavery. During her lifetime, Rosanne's mother was sometimes thought of as African-American, though Rosanne was unaware of her actual African-American ancestry.
Daughter of Johnny Cash and Vivian Liberto.

On change: The key to change is to let go of fear.
[on her father] He didn't love the business. he loved the music, and he loved being a writer and performer, but the business kind of irked him and he got into plenty of conflict. You take for granted anything your parents do when you are a kid, Later on when I became a songwriter myself, I appreciated just how rare what he did was. [His advice was] take care of your family first. Saying no is very powerful.. I hope I've refined what I do. I've worked on my skills and the quality of songs I can catch. I think I've strengthened my work ethic.

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