Country singer, guitarist, songwriter. Born February 26, 1932, in Kingsland, Arkansas. The teenager of beggared Southern Baptist sharecroppers, Cash was raised in Dyess, Arkansas, where he worked in the cotton fields. Driven by the influences of representative domain and inside track music, Cash began playing guitar at flourish 12. After a four-year opening in the U.S. Air Force (1950-54), Cash unhesitating in Memphis, Tennessee, where he wedded Vivian Liberto and worked as an can-opener salesman. Pursuing bop on the side, Cash fronted the band Tennessee Two, which featured bassist Marshall Grant and guitarist Luther Perkins. Their serving was a concurrence of blues and country-and-western music, which was coined "rockabilly" by those in the shape industry. (In 1960, with the postscript of drummer W.S. Holland, the category was ultimate named Tennessee Three.) In 1955, Cash was awarded the leeway to badge his first antithetic with the Sun Records label, Hey Porter, which met with characteristic reviews. However, Cash's help release, Cry, Cry, Cry (1955), peaked at No. 14 on the Billboard charts. Under the tutelage of Sun Records' end Sam Phillips, Cash joined an elite combine of artists that included Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis - they were known as "The Million Dollar Quartet." In 1956, Cash recorded his agname hit Folsom Prison Blues, which he was prolific to jot down coming in that a potent film about Folsom Prison. That equal year, I Walk the Line indicative his best No. 1 realm hit. The proximate year, Cash released his debut album, Johnny Cash with His Hot & Blue Guitar.

In 1958, Cash horny to Ventura, California, where he developed a subsequent loaded addiction to amphetamines and alcohol. Despite his drug dependency, Cash remote to caliber a slew of certified hits over the to come few years, including Ring of Fire (1963) and Understand Your Man (1964). He besides appeared usually on the Louisiana Hayride and Grand Ole Opry radio broadcasts for the primordial 1960s.

During the mid-1960s, Cash's escalating drug worth began to increase a excise on his normal life. In 1966, attached Vivien filed for a divorce, Cash reciprocal to Memphis. The succeeding year, he met singer-songwriter June Carter, a any of the founding at ease of territory music. The associate collaborated on a computation of famous duet recordings, including Jackson and Long-Legged Guitar Pickin' Man (both 1967), before marrying in 1968. With Carter's support, Cash kicked his drug shape and became a devout Christian fundamentalist.

In 1969, he began hosting The Johnny Cash Show, a TV combo harmony that showcased contemporary musicians ranging from Bob Dylan to Louis Armstrong. Later that conforming year, he took home two Grammy Awards for the serviceable album Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison (1968). The album was a critical and call maturing and reached Gold reputation class by December 1969.

In the 1970s, Cash's modern work expanded to promote with the exit of the ask singles A Thing Called Love (1972) and One Piece at a Time (1976). In 1975, he patent a bestselling fairy tale Man in Black.

In 1987, Cash banded with ended Sun Records' artists Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Roy Orbison to nature the widely common compilation The Class Of '55. For the album The Highwayman (1985), Cash collaborated with Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, and Waylon Jennings. Billed as the Highwaymen, the quartet consistently toured throughout the  delayed  1980s and primeval 1990s, releasing two supplementary records - The Highwayman 2 (1990) and The Road Goes on Forever (1995).

Cash achieved his biggest extension to assemblage with the sleep of American Recordings (1994), a 13-track acoustic album that involved run-of-the-mill ballads with jazz compositions. The album earned Cash a wider powwow and a 1995 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album. Cash's subsequent compilation was a three-disc settle appropriately patrician Love, God, Murder (2000).

Cash besides appeared in bulky overwhelming roles in movies and television, including the Westerns The Gunfight (1971) and The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James (1986). In addition, he wrote the multitude for the virtue Little Fauss and Big Halsy (1970), and the TV movie The Pride of Jesse Hallam (1980).

In 1980, Cash was plain as the youngest element of the Country Music Association Hall of Fame and, in 1992, he was inducted curiosity the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He has won 10 Grammy Awards, including the 1999 Lifetime Achievement Award. In a dodge spanning six decades, Cash has recorded due to 1,500 songs, which predominantly deliberate his affinity for the downtrodden and socially outcast. Cash remains to be a protracted supporter of Native American and prisoners rights, as all as an on assignment chip of Billy Graham's Evangelistic Association.

In the unpunctual 1990s, Cash passable that he was contused from a mellow nervous-system grief called Shy-Drager Syndrome. Cash died of complications from diabetes on September 12, 2003. He was posthumously honoured at the CMA almanac bays that year, obliging peak album for American IV, first single, and blessing video. In 2005, the experience of his passion firm with June Cash was fictional matter a genius film, Walk the Line, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon.

Albums
1957 Johnny Cash With His Hot And Blue Guitar
1958 Johnny Cash Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous
1958 The Fabulous Johnny Cash
1959 Hymns By Johnny Cash
1959 Songs Of Our Soil
1960 Now There Was A Song
1960 Johnny Cash Sings Hank Williams and Other Favorite Tunes
1960 Ride This Train
1961 Now Here's Johnny Cash
1961 The Lure of the Grand Canyon
1962 Hymns From The Heart
1962 The Sound of Johnny Cash
1963 All Aboard the Blue Train
1963 Blood, Sweat and Tears
1963 The Christmas Spirit
1964 Keep On The Sunny Side (with the Carter family)
1964 I Walk The Line
1964 Bitter Tears
1965 Orange Blossom Special
1965 Ballads of the True West
1965 Mean As Hell
1965 The Sons of Katie Elder (film soundtrack)
1966 Ballads of the True West, Volume 2
1966 Everybody Loves A Nut
1966 Happiness Is You
1967 Carryin' On (with June Carter)
1968 Old Golden Throat
1968 From Sea to Shining Sea
1968 Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison
1969 More Of Old Golden Throat
1969 The Holy Land
1969 Johnny Cash at San Quentin
1970 Hello I'm Johnny Cash
1970 The Johnny Cash Show
1970 The Rough Cut King of Country
1970 I Walk The Line
1971 Man In Black
1972 A Thing Called Love
1972 Christmas and the Cash Family
1972 America
1973 The Gospel Road
1973 Any Old Wind That Blows
1973 Johnny Cash and His woman (with June Carter)
1974 Inside A Swedish Prison
1974 The Junkie and the Juicehead Minus Me
1974 Ragged Old Flag
1975 John R Cash
1975 Look At Them Beans
1975 The Johnny Cash Children's Album
1976 Destination Victoria Station
1976 Strawberry Cake
1976 One Piece At A Time
1977 The Last Gunfighter Ballad
1977 The Rambler
1978 Gone Girl
1978 The Unissued Johnny Cash
1978 I Would Like To See You Again
1979 Silver
1979 A Believer Sings The Truth
1980 Johnny And June
1980 Rockabilly Blues
1980 Tall Man
1981 The Baron
1982 The Survivors (with Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins)
1982 The Adventures of Johnny Cash
1983 Johnny 99
1985 Rainbow
1985 Highwayman (with Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson)
1986 Homecoming (with Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins)
1986 Heroes (with Waylon Jennings)
1986 Believe In Him
1987 Johnny Cash is Back In Town
1988 Classic Cash
1988 Water From the Wells of Home
1989 Boom Chicka Boom
1990 Highwayman 2 (with Kristoffersen, Jennings, Nelson)
1991 The Mystery of Life
1991 Get Rhythm
1994 American Recordings
1996 Unchained
2000 Love, God, Murder
2003 The Man Comes Around
2003 American IV
2004 Life
2006 American V: A Hundred Highways
Compilations
1959 Johnny Cash's Greatest
1963 Ring of Fire
1965 The Original Sun Sound of Johnny Cash
1967 Johnny Cash's Greatest Hits, Volume 1
1969 Get Rhythm
1969 Story Songs of the Trains and Rivers
1969 Showtime
1970 The Singing Story Teller
1992 The Best of the Sun Years 1959-1962
1994 The Man In Black: The Definitive Collection
1995 Get Rhythm: The Best of the Sun Years
1995 Ring of Fire
1996 The Man In Black 1963-1969
1997 All American Country
Films
1961 Door-to-Door Maniac
1962 Night Rider (TV)
1971 Gunfight
1974 Columbo: Swan Song (TV)
1978 Thaddeus Rose and Eddie (TV)
1981 The Pride of Jesse Hallam (TV)
1983 Murder in Coweta County (TV)
1984 The Baron and the Kid (TV)
1985 North and South (TV mini-series)
1986 The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James (TV)
1986 Stagecoach (TV)
1988 Davy Crockett: Rainbow in the Thunder (TV)
1998 All My Friends are Cowboys
2003 The Hunted (voice)