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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].

Daughter of Johnny Cash and Vivian Liberto.

Children: Caitlin Rivers Crowell (born in 1980), Chelsea Jane Crowell (born in 1982), Carrie Kathleen Crowell (born in 1988), Jakob William Leventhal (born in 1999).

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.

Country singer.

Release of her memoirs, "Composed". (August 2010)

Older half-sister of John Carter Cash. Older stepsister of Carlene Carter and Rosey Nix Adams.

Her and Jimmy Tittle's composition "On the Surface" was recorded by Bettye LaVette on Lavette's 2005 CD, "I've Got My Own Hell to Raise" (Anti). Cash's original recording appears on her 1990 CD, "Interiors" (Sony).

Stepdaughter of June Carter Cash.

Older sister of Tara Cash, Cindy Cash and Kathy Cash.

Niece of Tommy Cash.

Cousin of Kelly Cash.