Rosanne Cash
April 22–23, 2019
Bio
One of the country's pre-eminent
singer-songwriters, Rosanne Cash has released 15 full length albums for which she has
earned four GRAMMY Awards and nominations for 11 more. In 2015, she was inducted into the
Nashville Songwriters' Hall of Fame. She is the author of several books including
bestselling memoir Composed, and Bodies of
Water, a short story collection, as well as editor of the anthology Songs Without Rhyme: Prose by Celebrated Songwriters. Her
essays have appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, the Oxford-American, the
Nation and many more publications.
In addition to continual worldwide touring, Cash has partnered in programming or served as
artist in residence at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, San Francisco Jazz, the Minnesota
Orchestra and The Library of Congress. She was awarded the SAG/AFTRA Lifetime Achievement
award for Sound Recordings in 2012 and received the 2014 Smithsonian Ingenuity Award in the
Performing Arts. She was chosen as a Perspective Series artist at Carnegie Hall and hosted
four concerts during their 2015/16 season, and she continues her association as Creative
Partner through the 2017/18 season.
Rosanne Cash was born in Memphis in 1955, the oldest child of Vivian Liberto Cash Distin and
the legendary musician Johnny Cash, and has written about her life and her upbringing in the
acclaimed memoir Composed. She currently resides with her
husband and son in Manhattan, where she and husband/co-writer/producer and arranger John
Leventhal are currently working on the music and lyrics for a new musical.