Johnny Cash

John R. "Johnny" Cash, born on February 26 1932, Kingsland Arkansas) is an American country music singer and songwriter.

The son of a poor farmer, his family soon moved into a farm in Dyess, Arkansas provided cheaply by the government as part of the New Deal and by age five he was working in the cottonfields.

In 1956, when he arrived at Sun Records, in Memphis, Tennessee, Cash had been singing mainly gospel tunes. Sam Philips said "go home and sin, then come back with a song I can sell." He did and soon recorded monster hits like "I Walk The Line" and "Ring of Fire".

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