Brandy Norwood

The next single will be the Timbaland-laced soul throwback "Who Is She 2 U". In 2002, he was honored at the Americana Awards show with a "Spirit of Americana Free Speech Award". The album debut at number 3 on the Billboard Top 200 Album charts, and number 4 on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Album charts. Cash was one of the initial recipients of the Library of Congress Living Legend medal in 2000. The album detailed the highs and lows of Brandy's relationships with a mixture of melodrama, independence, and sexuality. In 1996 he was honored with a Kennedy Center Award, and he has a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6320 Hollywood Blvd. Both People and Rolling Stone magazine rated the album four stars, with Rolling Stone comparing it to 'Janet Jackson at her best..'. Johnny Cash was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1980 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992.

Despite the negative blitz, Afrodisiac became Brandy's most critically-acclaim album to date. He had a personal link with the SOS village in Ammersee in Diessen, Germany, near where he was stationed as a GI, and also with the SOS village in Barrat Town, by Montego Bay near his holiday home in Jamaica. Brandy is said to embark on a concert tour with her own opening acts later in 2004. In recognition of his lifelong support of SOS Children's Villages, his family invited friends and fans to donate to that charity in his memory. Hip-Hop guru Timbaland produced the bulk of the album. American V, his final album, will be released posthumously. Early ticket sales for the outing were said to be poor. It included four CDs of unreleased material recorded with Rubin, as well as a "Best of Cash on American" retrospective CD.

West (who just so happens to be one of Medina's other clients) as an opening gig. A box set, titled Unearthed, was issued posthumously. Controversy surrounded Medina's handling of the lead single "Talk About Our Love" (Producer: Kanye West), a puzzling Vibe Magazine cover in which the singer appeared prostrated with headlines: "What's Behind Brandy?," and failed talks of a purported co-headlining tour with R&B singer Usher that was mysteriously handed to Mr. Though he wrote over a thousand songs and released dozens of albums, his creative output was not entirely silenced by his death. Brandy axed her relationship with his Los Angeles based Handprint Entertainment after less than a year of representation. Two tribute albums were released shortly before his death; Kindred Spirits contains works from established artists, while Dressed In Black contains works from many lesser-known artists. Brandy's latest album, the "Afrodisiac" disc is slated for a June 29, 2004 release, amidst her weakest promotional blitz ever and the well-publicized termination of her short-lived business relationship with entertainment manager Benny Medina - a (behind-the-scenes) superstar and diva in his own right. At an all-star concert in 2002, a diverse group of artists paid him tribute, including Bob Dylan, Chris Isaak, Wyclef Jean, Norah Jones, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, and U2.

There has been no word on this project since 2001, however. Cash nurtured and defended artists on the fringes of what was acceptable in country music, even while serving as the country music establishment's most visible symbol. Brandy was said to be the considered lead in a Diana Ross biopic planned by the legendary singer. Upon his death, Cash was revered and eulogized by many of the greatest popular musicians of our day, whose comments on the man and his work reflect something of the esteem in which he was held:. Other roles include a television movie she co-produced and starred in with Diana Ross entitled Double Platinum; and a role in the franchise-flick I Still Know What You Did Last Summer where she portrayed the sassy Karla - best friend to Jennifer Love Hewitt's lead character. From his early days as a pioneer of rockabilly and rock and roll in the 1950s, to his decades as an international representative of country music, to his resurgence to fame as both a living legend and an alternative country icon in the 1990s, Cash has influenced countless artists and left a body of work matched only by the greatest artists of his time. The tele-film broke ratings records and garnered nine Emmy Award nominations. He was interred next to his wife in Hendersonville Memory Gardens near his home in Hendersonville, Tennessee.

In 1997, she played the title character in Rodger And Hammerstein’s television version of Cinderella (see fan site (http://www.foreverbrandy.com)) featuring multi-cultural casting that also included Whitney Houston, Jason Alexander, Whoopi Goldberg, and Bernadette Peters. Less than four months after his wife's death, Johnny Cash died at the age of 71 due to complications from diabetes, which resulted in respiratory failure, while hospitalized at Baptist Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee. Brandy starred, for six seasons, in the popular television series Moesha in which she played the lead character, a rambunctious young teen. His wife, June Carter Cash, died due to complications following heart valve surgery on May 15, 2003 at the age of 73. However before the proposal, controversy once again arose when former lover, music producer/songrwiter Robert Smith, shocked radio viewers in a interview in New York when he revealed that he and Brandy did not legally get married in the summer of 2001 as reported. It also won a Grammy for Best Short Form Video at the 2004 Grammy Awards. In late July 2004, NBA player and Los Angeles Clippers guard Quentin Richardson proposed to Brandy at a private reception in Los Angeles with friends and family, according to People magazine. The video for "Hurt", a song written by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, was nominated in seven categories at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards and won the award for Best Cinematography.

The song received a lukewarm reception, peaking at number 36 on the Billboard Top 100 charts and number 16 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Single & Tracks charts. Cash released American IV: The Man Comes Around (2002), consisting partly of original material and partly of covers, some quite surprising. Returning from yet another hiatus, Brandy's fourth album was released on June 29, 2004. The first single from that album, "Talk About Our Love", was produced by Kanye West and released in April 2004. The album American III: Solitary Man (2000) contained his response to the illness, typified by a version of Tom Petty's "I Won't Back Down", as well as a powerful reading of U2's "One". However, the couple divorced in 2003. In 1997 Cash was diagnosed with the neurodegenerative disease Shy-Drager syndrome — a diagnosis that was later altered to autonomic neuropathy, associated with diabetes — and his illness forced him to curtail his touring; he was hospitalised in 1998 with severe pneumonia, which damaged his lungs. Brandy entered the studio to record new material with Smith in December of 2002. Cash and Rubin bought a full-page ad in Billboard magazine sarcastically thanking the country music industry for its continued support, accompanied by a picture of Cash displaying his middle finger.

The more she retreated from public life, the more she was hounded by gossip hounds and paparazzi. Despite being virtually ignored by country music radio and the Nashville establishment, Unchained received a Grammy for "Best Country Album". Brandy ignored the rumblings and settled further into wedded and maternal bliss with her new family. In addition to many of Cash's own compositions, Unchained contained songs by Soundgarden ("Rusty Cage") and Beck ("Rowboat"), as well as a guest appearance from Flea, bassist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Still, the album was rather quietly and cautiously declared as a flop by the media. For his second album with Rubin, 1996's Unchained, Cash enlisted the accompaniment of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Overseas, it faired much better, selling around 3.5 million copies outside of the United States. The actress thought so highly of Cash that she later named one of her twin sons after him and another after Christopher Reeve.

Full Moon sold over a million copies - a modest number of units for an artist of Brandy's caliber. In addition to this, Cash and his wife appeared on a number of episodes of the popular television series Doctor Quinn Medicine Woman starring Jane Seymour. Brandy's third album Full Moon was released in March of 2002 and spawned the hits "What About Us" and "Full Moon," whose video disguised a five-month-pregnant Brandy, and whose lyrics explained how Brandy felt when she first locked eyes with her husband Robert Smith at a party. This was the beginning of a decade of music industry accolades and surprising commercial success. The song was released internationally and became an instant smash hit, topping the charts in the UK, Germany, and Australia. Cash wrote that his reception at the 1994 Glastonbury Festival was one of the highlights of his career. In 2001, Brandy and her brother, Ray J, were chosen to remake Phil Collins' 1980s hit "Another Day in Paradise" for Urban Renewal: A Tribute to Phil Collins. The album was well received by critics, while his versions of songs by more modern artists such as heavy metal band Danzig and Tom Waits helped to bring him a new audience.

Shortly after the birth of their child, Brandy retreated from public life with Smith. The video for the first single, the traditional song "Delia's Gone", was put into rotation on MTV, including a spot on Beavis and Butt-head. A 4-part reality series surrounding the birth of their daughter, Sy'rai Iman Smith, aired on MTV in the summer of 2002. Under Rubin's supervision, he recorded the album American Recordings (1994) in his living room, accompanied only by his guitar. The union did not make public acquaintance until February of 2002 as the singer waspreparing for her impending album release. Though unwanted by major labels, he was approached by producer Rick Rubin and offered a contract with Rubin's American Recordings label, better known for rap and hard rock than for country music. After a lengthy hiatus that saw the end of her Moesha television series, and a flurry of tabloid headlines discussing her bout with "dehydration", the singer quietly married music producer Robert Smith in the summer of 2001. His career was rejuvenated in the 1990s.

She also landed a multitude of endorsement deals with CoverGirl cosmetics - whom she represented for several years, was the subject of a major advertisement campaign for DKNY Jeans for three seasons, and modelled Candies shoes in an eye-catch ad campaign photographed by Dave LaChapelle. In 1986 Cash published his only novel, Man in White, a book about Saul and his conversion in becoming the Apostle Paul. For the next three years, Brandy completed the remaining three seasons of her lauded sitcom Moesha and starred in a number of widely successful and critically acclaimed television specials and movies. After being dropped from his recording contract with Columbia Records, he had a short and unsuccessful stint with Mercury Records. Like U Used To". As his relationship with record companies and the Nashville establishment soured, he occasionally lapsed into self-parody, notably on "Chicken In Black". During this time, her record company, Atlantic Records, issued a 9-track remix EP entitled "U Don't Know Me.. He said he had visions of Heaven that were so beautiful that he was angry when he woke up alive.

In late 1999, as part of her campaign to help UNICEF, as their International Spokesperson for Youth, "One Voice" (a selection from the Never S-A-Y Never LP) was made the official song of the organization. Cash later claimed that during his operation, he had what is called a "near death experience". To date, Never S-A-Y Never has sold in excess of 14 million copies worldwide. Both recovered, though Cash refused to use any prescription painkillers, fearing a relapse into dependency. Again, two versions of the song with corresponding music video clips were released. Both were minor hits late 1998 and through 1999. Doctors recommended preventative heart surgery for Cash, and he underwent double bypass surgery in the same hospital. While the album still had potential for a number of additional single releases, "U Don't Know Me (Like U Used To)," was the last single from Never S-A-Y Never. At another hospital visit in 1988, this time to watch over Waylon Jennings (who was recovering from a heart attack), Jennings suggested that Cash have himself checked in to the hospital for his own heart condition.

"Almost Doesn't Count" a guitar-laden acoustic ballad was the fourth single, accompanied by two different versions of another interesting video. During his recovery at the Betty Ford Clinic in 1986, he met and befriended Ozzy Osbourne, one of his son's favorite singers. The album's third single, "Have You Ever," was the first number one single of 1999 as it hit the top of the Billboard Hot 100 and dominated US radio airplay for a record three months. Cash relapsed into addiction in the early 1980s, after a stomach injury caused him to begin abusing painkillers. A remixed version of "Top Of The World," with Hispanic hip-hoppers Fat Joe & the late Big Pun, became an instant club classic. This film was based on a real life Georgia murder case and Cash had tried for years to make the film that also won acclaim. The concept video, while not her most beautiful, carried quite a bit of symbolism related to her life as a pop culture celebrity and international icon. In 1983, Cash also appeared as a heroic sheriff in Murder In Coweta County.

This strange phenomena also included balancing herself vertically and horizontally alongside skyscrapers and buildings. Cash won fine reviews for his work in this film that called attention to adult illiteracy. She spontaneously floated in the air - flipping and somersaulting above random objects; telephone poles and vehicles, as people stopped to stare. In 1981, he starred in The Pride Of Jesse Hallam. The video featured Brandy incurring various supernatural phenomena. It was also in this time period that Johnny Cash appeared as an actor in a number of television films. The second single from Never S-A-Y Never, "Top Of The World" featuring rapper Mase was not commercially released in the US. In the mid-1980s he recorded and toured with Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson as The Highwaymen, making two hit albums.

In the fall of 1998, Brandy co-hosted and performed at the American Music Awards, where she was nominated for "Favorite Female Artist Of The Year" in both their Rock & Pop and Soul categories. In 1980, Cash became the Country Music Hall of Fame's youngest living inductee at age 48, but during the 1980s his records failed to make a major impact on the country charts, though he continued to tour successfully. It was nominated for a Rhythm and Blues Award and a Grammy Award, both as "Best Album Of The Year", in 1999. He did a voice cameo on The Simpsons in the show's eighth season, playing the voice of a coyote that guides Homer on a spiritual quest. Amidst this phenomenal success, the album was also a number one smash on the Billboard 200 Albums chart, eventually reaching multi-platinum sales of over 5 million copies in the US. He also continued appearing on television, hosting an annual Christmas special on CBS throughout the 1970s. "The Boy Is Mine," spent thirteen weeks atop the Hot 100 chart that summer and dominated several other Billboard charts in the US and around the world. The decade saw his religious conviction deepening, and in addition to his regular touring schedule, he made many public appearances in an evangelical capacity.

The duet was released in the spring, and by the summer had transformed into a cult hit. "The Boy Is Mine" was, by far, the biggest single of 1998, winning the "Best R&B Performancy by a Duo or Group" award at the Grammys in 1999. His friendship with Billy Graham led to the production of a movie about the life of Jesus, The Gospel Road, which Cash co-wrote and narrated. Brandy co-wrote and produced the song, which wasn't originally intended as a duet, then asked Monica to re-record it with her. (A second, "Cash: The Autobiography", appeared in 1998). Brandy recorded a duet with Monica, "The Boy Is Mine" which became the first single from Never S-A-Y Never. In the mid-'70s, Cash's popularity and hit songs began to decline, but his autobiography, titled Man in Black, was published in 1975 and sold 1.3 million copies. The album received a total of four Grammy nominations and won in the "Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group" category. In 1971, Johnny wrote the song "Man in Black" to help explain his dress code: "I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, / Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town, / I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, / But is there because he's a victim of the times.".

Brandy wrote and produced a great deal of the material on this album, executive producing the entire project as well. This outfit stood in stark contrast to the costumes worn by most of the major country acts in his day – rhinestone Nudie suits and cowboy boots. Her second album, 1998's Never S-A-Y Never, was nominated for a Rhythm and Blues Award and a Grammy Award, both as Best Album Of The Year, and she co-hosted the American Music Awards, where she was nominated for Favorite Female Artist Of The Year in both their Rock & Pop and Soul categories. He regularly performed dressed all in black, wearing a long black knee-length coat, causing him to be dubbed "The Man in Black". The song won a Grammy nomination in the "Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals" category. Immensely popular, and an imposing tall figure, by the early 1970s he had crystallized his public image. Even with the superstar lineup, it was Brandy's least successful single yet, but was still a moderate hit, and peaked in the top 30 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart. During a live performance of Kristofferson's "Sunday Morning Coming Down", Cash made headlines when he refused to change the lyrics to suit network executives, singing the song with its controversial references to marijuana intact: "On the Sunday morning sidewalks / Wishin', Lord, that I was stoned".

Later in 1996, Brandy teamed up with Tamia, Chaka Khan, and Gladys Knight, for the single "Missing You," released from the Set It Off soundtrack. Another artist who received a major career boost from The Johnny Cash Show was songwriter Kris Kristofferson. Also in 1996, Brandy was taken to her prom by Los Angeles Lakers basketball star Kobe Bryant. In addition to the appearance on his TV show, Cash sang a duet with Dylan on his country album Nashville Skyline, and also wrote the album's Grammy-winning liner notes. Towards the end of that year, she contributed a song to the Waiting To Exhale soundtrack, which yielded "Sittin' Up in My Room," a smash hit single that inhabited the top of the Pop charts throughout early 1996. Cash was enthusiastic about reintroducing the reclusive Dylan to his audience. Also that year, an acoustic reading of her hit, "BrokenHearted" with Wanya Morris of Boyz II Men, stormed into the top 10 of the Billboard singles charts. Cash had been an early supporter of Dylan even before they had met, but they became friends while they were neighbors in late 1960s Woodstock, New York.

The sensual torch song was never released due to its mature theme and content (at the time, Brandy was only 16). Notable rock artists appeared on his show, including Neil Young and Bob Dylan. In 1996, she recorded a duet with Lenny Kravitz for the Batman Forever soundtrack, penned and produced by Kravitz after viewing one of her videos on MTV and proclaiming he "had to have her". From 1969 to 1971, he starred in his own television show on the ABC network. At the 2nd annual Lady of Soul Awards, Brandy was honored with the Aretha Franklin Award for Entertainer of the Year in 1996. Shortly after his historic concert at Madison Square Garden in the last days of the 1960s, his son John Carter Cash was born. Between 1995 and 1996, she won a total of seven Soul Train and Soul Train 'Lady of Soul' Music Awards, in the categories of "Best New Artist," "Best R&B/Soul Artist, Female," "Best R&B/Single, Solo," "Best R&B/Soul Song of The Year," "Best R&B/Soul New Artist," "Best R&B/Soul Album of The Year, Solo," and "Best New Artist of the Year". The Folsom Prison record was charged by a blistering rendition of his classic "Folsom Prison Blues", while the San Quentin record included the crossover hit single "A Boy Named Sue", a Shel Silverstein-penned song that reached number one on the country charts and number two on the US Top Ten pop charts.

She was nominated for a 1996 "Best New Artist" Grammy and "Best Female R&B Vocal Performance" Grammy Award, also for her smash hit "Baby"; in 1996, she won an NAACP Image Award for "Outstanding New Artist". Over the next two years, he recorded and released two massively successful live albums, Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison (1968) and Johnny Cash at San Quentin (1969). At the 1996 MTV Video Music Awards she eclipsed a category that comprised U2,Whitney Houston, and Seal to win the "Best Song From A Movie" award for "Sittin' Up In My Room". With his wife's help, and influenced by a religious conversion experienced during a failed suicide attempt, he became a born-again Christian and began the battle against drug addiction. In the fall of 1995 she attended the Billboard Music Awards taking home the awards for "Best New Artist, R&B," and "Best R&B Female". The love ballad "Flesh and Blood" is one of the first of many songs Cash would write about his lifelong love for his wife. Awards started to come soon after. He locked himself in his home and underwent detox, relying heavily on his friends and his new wife, June Carter (a member of the Carter Family).

To date, Brandy's debut album has sold in excess of 7 million copies worldwide. Less than two months later, the home of his next door neighbor and close friend, Roy Orbison, burned down, claiming the lives of two of Orbison's three young sons. Cash was profoundly affected by these incidents, and he began the long, hard road to recovery. The album contained the popular singles "I Wanna Be Down," "Baby," "Best Friend," "Brokenhearted," and made her an MTV star throughout 1995 and into early 1996. His longtime guitarist, Luther Perkins, died in a house fire in August 1968. When Brandy was 14, she was able to land a record deal with Atlantic Records, and in 1994 her first album, Brandy, was released, reaching gold status in less than two months, and quadruple platinum status soon after. Personal problems and calamity followed him to his new home on Old Hickory Lake in Hendersonville, Tennessee (outside of Nashville). At 11, she met a record producer who took her to various record companies and led her to backup singing jobs with two groups: Norment and the more successful Immature. "So is Rochester — Harlem — Birmingham and Vietnam.".

At the age of four, the Norwoods moved to California, where Brandy began her artistic career singing at talent shows in 1990. " 'Ballad of Ira Hayes' is strong medicine," he wrote. Brandy became a fan of Whitney Houston, and she told her father that she wanted to be a singer, like Houston. Cash took out a full-page ad in Billboard denouncing country radio for its reluctance. Norwood's father was a pastor, and by the age of two, she was singing at his church. 3 country single, many stations refused to play it, deeming it too risky. She was born in McComb, Mississippi, USA and raised in southern California. Despite his heroism, Hayes returned home to crushing despair and to the racism that never disappeared: "Ira Hayes returned a hero, celebrated throughout the land / He was wined and speeched and honoured, everybody shook his hand / But He was just a Pima Indian, no water, no home, no chance / At home nobody cared what Ira had done, and when do the Indians dance?" Though "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" was a No.

Brandy Rayana Norwood (born February 11, 1979), known professionally as Brandy, is an pop/R&B singer and actress. For his album Bitter Tears, Cash recorded "The Ballad of Ira Hayes," a Peter LaFarge song that told the true story of a Pima Indian who was one of the Marine heroes of the epic WWII battle at Iwo Jima. 2004 "Who Is She 2 U". However, his drug addiction deepened, and his destructive behaviour led to a divorce and numerous problems performing. 2004 "Afrodisiac" #11 UK. The mid 1960s saw Cash release a number of concept records, including Ballads Of The True West (1965) — an experimental double record mixing authentic frontier songs with Cash's spoken narration, let down by the modern arrangements — and Bitter Tears (1964), with songs highlighting the plight of the native Americans. Kanye West) #36 US, #6 UK. More notably, he voluntarily entered several prisons to perform a series of concerts for convicts, for whom he felt a great compassion.

2004 "Talk about Our Love" (feat. He was also arrested the next year in Starkville, Mississippi for trespassing late at night onto private property to pick flowers. 2002 "Full Moon" #18 US, #15 UK. He only received a suspended sentence. 2002 "What about Us?" #7 US, #4 UK. Though the officers suspected that he was smuggling heroin from Mexico, he was actually smuggling illegal amphetamines inside his guitar case. Ray J) #5 UK. Although he carefully cultivated a romantic outlaw image, many fans are surprised to learn that he never served a prison sentence, though his wild activities and misdemeanors sometimes landed him in jail for short terms, usually only overnight. His most serious run-in with the law occurred while on tour in 1965, when he was arrested by the narcotics squad in El Paso, Texas.

2001 "Another Day in Paradise" (feat. The song, written about Cash, describes the personal Hell that Carter went through, as she revealed her forbidden love for Cash (as they were both married to different people at the time). 1999 "U Don't Know Me (Like U Used to)". The song was co-written by June Carter and Merle Kilgore and originally performed by Carter's sister, but the signature mariachi-style horn arrangement was conceived by Cash, who claimed to have heard it in a dream. 1999 "Almost Doesn't Count" #16 US, #15 UK. His record "Ring of Fire" was a major crossover hit, reaching number one on the country charts and entering the Top 20 on the pop charts. 1998 "Have You Ever?" #1 US, #13 UK. Though in many ways spiraling out of control, his frenetic creativity was still delivering hits.

Mase) #2 UK. For a brief time, Cash shared an apartment in Nashville with Waylon Jennings, who was also heavily addicted to amphetamines. 1998 "Top of the World" (feat. Friends joked about his "nervousness" and erratic behavior, many ignoring the signs of his worsening drug addiction. 1998 "The Boy Is Mine" (with Monica) #1 US, #2 UK. As his career was taking off in the early 1960s, Johnny Cash became addicted to amphetamines and barbiturates. Tamia, Gladys Knight & Chaka Khan; from Set It Off soundtrack) #25 US. By June's account, in the liner notes to the compilation album Love (2000), the song "I Still Miss Someone" was written about her.

1996 "Missing You" (feat. It was during one of these tours that he met June Carter, his future wife. 1995 "Sittin' up in My Room" (from Waiting To Exhale soundtrack) #2 US, #30 UK. Though he would have three more daughters with his wife, their relationship began to sour, as Johnny was constantly touring. 1995 "Best Friend" #34 US. In 1955, his daughter, singer Rosanne Cash, was born. Wanya Morris of Boyz II Men) #9 US. The following year, Cash left Sun to sign a lucrative offer with Columbia Records, where his single "Don't Take Your Guns to Town" would become one of his biggest hits.

1995 "Brokenhearted" (feat. Though Sun's most consistently best-selling and prolific artist at that time, Cash began to feel constrained by his contract with the small label. Elvis Presley had already left the label, and Phillips was focusing most of his attention and promotion on Jerry Lee Lewis. 1995 "Baby" #4 US. In 1957, Johnny Cash became the first Sun artist to release a long-playing album. 1994 "I Wanna Be Down" #6 US, #36 UK. Cash's next record, "Folsom Prison Blues", made the country Top 5, and "I Walk the Line" was number one on the country charts, making it into the pop charts Top 20. P.Diddy and Bow Wow; 2003). His first recordings at Sun, "Hey Porter" and "Cry Cry Cry", were released in 1955 and were met with reasonable success on the country hit parade.

The Wild Thornberrys: The Movie ("Dance With Us" feat. After auditioning for Phillips, singing mainly gospel tunes, Phillips told him to "go home and sin, then come back with a song I can sell." Cash eventually won over Phillips and Clement with new songs delivered in his early frenetic style. Osmosis Jones ("Open"; 2001). Sun producer Cowboy Jack Clement met with the young singer first, and suggested that Cash return to meet producer Sam Phillips. Set It Off ("Missing You"; 1996). Cash worked up the courage to visit the Sun Records studio, hoping to garner a recording contract. Waiting to Exhale ("Sittin' Up in My Room"; 1995). At night, he played with guitarist Luther Perkins and bassist Marshall Grant (the Tennessee Two).

Afrodisiac (2004) #3 US, #32 UK. After his term of service ended, Cash married Vivian Liberto in 1954 and moved to Memphis, Tennessee, where he sold appliances while studying to be a radio announcer. Full Moon (2002) #2 US, #9 UK. While an airman in Germany, Cash wrote one of his most famous songs, "Folsom Prison Blues". Never Say Never (1998) #2 US, #19 UK. Thereafter, he was known as Johnny and sometimes as John R. Brandy (1994) #20 US. He was dubbed "John" upon enlisting as a radio operator in the Air Force, which refused to accept initials as his name.

He began playing guitar and writing songs as a young boy, and in high school sang on a local radio station. His early memories were dominated by gospel music and radio. Almost sixty years later, Johnny still talked of looking forward to meeting his brother in Heaven. On his deathbed, the young man had visions of Heaven and angels before he died.

Cash always talked of the horrible guilt he felt over this incident because he had gone fishing that day. He suffered for over a week before he died. He was pulled into a whirring table saw in the mill where he worked and almost cut in two. His beloved brother Jack was killed in an accident.

In 1944, a horrible incident occurred that affected Johnny Cash the rest of his life. Cash was very close to his brother Jack. By age five Cash was working in the cotton fields, singing along with his family as they worked. Cash's father had a severe drinking problem and was physically and emotionally abusive to his family.

His family soon moved into a farm in Dyess, Arkansas, which was provided at little cost by the government as part of the New Deal. Cash in Kingsland, Arkansas, the son of a poor farmer. Cash was born J.R. His gravelly voice and the distinctive boom chicka boom sound of his Tennessee Two backing band were instantly recognizable to millions.