June Carter Cash

June Carter Cash (Maces Springs (Virginia), 23 June 1929 – Nashville (Tennessee), 15 may 2003) was a singer, songwriter, Member of one of the most famous country-families (The Carter Family) and the wife of the legendary country singer Johnny Cash. She was multi-instrumentalist and played the guitar, the banjo and the autoharp.



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[hide] *1 Biography  ==Biography[ Edit] == June Carter Cash was born Valerie June Carter in Maces Springs, Virginia, as the middle daughter of Ezra Carter and Maybelle Carter ("Eck"Mother Maybelle). ===The Carter Family[ Edit] === In the winter of 1937–1938 the family pulled Carter with Junes younger sister Anita and older sister Helen to Texas where the family performed twice a day for the radio station XERA (later XERF) in Villa Acuña (now known as Ciudad Acuña, Mexico). Did they still went to school because June not participate in these first performances. From June 1940 joined the Carters in their performances.
 * 1.1 The Carter Family
 * 1.2 On own legs
 * 1.3 with Johnny Cash
 * Walk the Line 2
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A performance in San Antonio was recorded and distributed to various local radio stations on the border with Mexico. Junes first contribute to the performances consisted of playing the autoharp. Over thirty years later he would tell Johnny Cash June around 1940 as a child listened on the radio to the Carters, and in particular to June.

In March 1943 the Carter Family stopped performing and recording. Maybelle, Junes mother, decided "Mother Maybelle & the Carter Sisters" to be set up, consisting of Maybelle itself, and her three daughters Anita, Helen and June. This new company first came on the radio on 1 June of that year. At the end of 1945 the ladies accompanied by Doc Allington (Maybelles brother) and Carl McConnell, a cousin. The then sixteen-year-old June now also worked as "voice" for recording of commercials. During 1946, the Group was much less talented than her sisters on June and had to work harder than the others, but she knew that to compensate by its own special comic talent. Her uncle Carl wrote in his memoirs that June was a "born clown".

Through various wanderings (Virginia, Knoxville, Springfield) in 1950 the family eventually came in Nashville visit. Here the family became friends with Hank Williams and Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and June ultimately learned common. ===On own legs[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the mid-fifties of the twentieth century moved June to New York and studied at the Actors Studio. Elia Kazan had seen her during a performance in Tennessee and wrote to her a lot of potential. She was staying a time near Kazan and his wife. In this period learned June Robert Duvall among other things and know James Dean .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Junes first spouse was the singer Carl Smith. Their marriage took place in 1952, they divorced in 1957. Their daughter Rebecca Carlene Smith (known as "Carlene Carter") was born in 1955 and is a singer. In 1957 married June with Edwin Nix, a police officer, from whom she separated in 1966 . From this marriage, in 1958, was also a daughter born: Abbod Lea (Rosie). Abbod came in 2003 to pass through a carbon monoxide poisoning.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In June 1968, now married for the third time with Johnny Cash. On 3 March 1970 the couple had a son, John Carter Cash. Eventually their marriage held 35 years, until her death in 2003. Her husband Johnny died 12 september that same year. ===With Johnny Cash<span class="mw-editsection" len="338" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1967 won June along with her future husband Johnny Cash a Grammy Award in the category Best Country & Western Performance, Duet, Trio Or Group (vocal or instrumental) for the song Jackson. In 1970 they won this award again, now as a married couple, for the song If I Were a Carpenter.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In June 1999, won a Grammy Award for her album Press On. Her latest album Wildwood Flower was posthumously released and won two Grammy's on.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">June died in May 2003 due to complications by a heart surgery, two years after her a pacemaker was inserted. She was buried in Hendersonville, Tennessee. ==Walk the Line<span class="mw-editsection" len="336" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In Walk the Line, the film about the life of Johnny Cash, the role of June Carter, played by Reese Witherspoon. This film is mainly about the development of the relationship between June and Johnny from the moment they meet up to the time that Johnny June asks in marriage. Witherspoon received several awards, including an Oscar for this role.