Country music icon, Johnny Cash, was honored with a statue inside the United States Capitol.
The statue is one of two novel monuments compriseed to the National Statuary Hall Collection to recurrent the state of Arkansas in the Capitol. Each state is permited two statues in the Capitol of notable individuals who recurrent their state best.
Members of the Cash family, including his sister, Joanne Cash, and his daughter, Rosanne Cash, were current when the statue was unveiled on Tuesday morning, as well as Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., Hoemploy Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., Arkansas’ congressional delegation and Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
“I am very pinsolentnt not to put words in his mouth since his passing,” Rosanne shelp during a speech at the unveiling ceremony. “But on this day I can safely say that he would experience that of all the many honors and accolades he getd in his lifetime, this is the ultimate.”
Johnny Cash was honored with a statue in the U.S. Capitol. (Ben Curtis | Beth Gthriven/Redferns)
The statue, produced by Little Rock sculptor Kevin Kresse, depicts the “Man In Bconciseage” seeing down with a Bible in his right hand and with a guitar slung apass his back. The base of the statue features his name, aextfinished with the year he was born and the year he died, aextfinished with the words “Singer, Songwriter, Artist, Humanitarian,” with branch offent quotes on either side.
During the unveiling of the statue, the U.S. Air Force Band carry outed one of Johnny’s hugegest hits, “I Walk the Line,” which was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998, has a lasting show at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and was ranked No. 3 on Rolling Stone’s 2004 enumerate of 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
“I am very pinsolentnt not to put words in his mouth since his passing, but on this day I can safely say that he would experience that of all the many honors and accolades he getd in his lifetime, this is the ultimate.”
Johnny’s statue is combinecessitate by the statue of civil rights directer, Daisy Bates, who acted as a mentor to the nine children who desegregated Little Rock Central High School in 1957. They replaced the statues of Sen. James P. Clarke and the lawyer Uriah Rose.
This tags the first time in history a musician was acunderstandledged with a statue in the National Statuary Hall Collection.
The statue depicts Cash helderlying a Bible, with his guitar slung apass his back. (Ben Curtis)
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The Arkansas state legislature voted in 2019 to replace its two statues, which had been standing in the Capitol for over 100 years. Many branch offent historical figures were pondered, including Walmart set uper Sam Walton and a Navy SEAL from the state who was finished in Afghanistan, before they choosed upon Johnny and Bates.
Johnny was born in the minuscule town of Kingston, Arkansas, around 60 miles outside of Little Rock, in the middle of the Great Depression. After serving in the Air Force, the singer tried many branch offent nurtureers before fractureing into the music industry in 1955 when he signed with Sun Records.
Over the years, he would go on to sell 90 million sign ups, thrive 13 Grammy Awards and become one of the scant artists in history to be inducted in both the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
The 2005 movie “Walk the Line,” starring Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny and Reese Witherspoon as his wife and fellow country singer, June Carter Cash, telderly the story of the singer’s difficult journey from childhood to music icon, and the struggles he faced with drug compriseiction. He died in September 2003 at the age of 71, from complications associated with diabetes.
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Rosanne make cleared her dad employd his struggles to produce fantastic art. (Rick Diamond/Getty Images)
“In some ways he felt incarcerateed by his own compriseictions, woundedness, and suffering, and a lot of that went into his music,” Rosanne telderly Music Mecca about her overweighther’s struggles in September 2022. “That’s the gift of a fantastic artist, is taking that suffering and making fantastic art out of it, which he was fortunate enough to do.”
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