“If being a wife were a corporation, June would have been a CEO. It was her most treasured role.”
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June Carter Cash
Valerie June Carter Cash was an American country singer, songwriter, comedienne, actress, and author. A five-time Grammy Award winner, she was a member of the Carter Family and the second wife of singer Johnny Cash. Before her marriage, she performed as June Carter, a name she continued to use professionally, including on songwriting credits. She played guitar, banjo, harmonica, and autoharp, and…
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entertainment · American singer (1929–2003) · singer-songwriter · singer · banjoist · actor · songwriter · dancer · television actor · recording artist · country musician · also June Carter Cash, June Carter, Valerie June Carter Cash, Cash
Born 23 June 1929 · Died 15 May 2003 · Q233253
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2026· 2 entries
Public attention spiked: 11,562 Wikipedia readers in one day, 5.6× the usual 2,079, with 0 article edits.
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2025· 1 entry
Carter Cash was named a member-elect to the Country Music Hall of Fame as a Veterans Era Artist, recognizing her contributions over her 60-year career
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2014· 2 entries
Released album “Country Lovers”.
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When Out Among the Stars was released under Johnny Cash's name
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2013· 1 entry
Released album “The Chronogical Classics: June Carter 1949-1956”.
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2009· 2 entries
Released album “Johnny and June”.
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Was posthumously inducted into the Christian Music Hall of Fame, and in 2025, she was named a posthumous inductee into the Country Music Hall of Fame
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2006· 3 entries
Released album “Collections”.
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Released album “Duets”.
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Released album “16 Biggest Hits”.
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2005· 4 entries
Released album “Keep on the Sunny Side: June Carter Cash – Her Life in Music”.
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Released album “Ring of Fire: The Best of June Carter Cash”.
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Released album “Church in the Wildwood: A Treasury of Appalachian Gospel”.
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Released album “Pete Seeger’s Rainbow Quest”.
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2003· 7 entries
Released album “Louisiana Hayride”.
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Released album “Wildwood Flower”.
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Died 2003-05-15.
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Just over a month before her death, when she appeared on the CMT Flameworthy awards program to accept an achievement award on behalf of her husband, who was too ill to attend
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Country Music Television included her on their list of the "40 Greatest Women of Country Music"
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The couple remained married until her death in May 2003, four months before Cash died.
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Their family asked that donations be made to the SOS Children's Villages due to the couple's involvement
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1999· 2 entries
Released album “It’s All in the Family”.
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Released album “Press On”.
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1979· 1 entry
And she wrote a memoir, From the Heart, almost 10 years later
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1978· 1 entry
Released album “Johnny & June”.
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1977· 1 entry
In a June 1977 speech, Jimmy Carter acknowledged that June Carter was his distant cousin.
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1975· 2 entries
Released album “Appalachian Pride”.
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Press On (1999), and Wildwood Flower, released posthumously in 2003 and produced by her son, John Carter Cash
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1974· 1 entry
The Cashes donated money to help build a village near their home in Barrett Town, Jamaica, which they visited frequently, playing the guitar and singing songs to the children in the village
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1973· 3 entries
And, along with her daughters, was a featured vocalist on Cash's 1974 album The Junkie and the Juicehead Minus Me
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Released album “Johnny Cash and His Woman”.
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When they donated US$12,000 (equivalent to $87,031 in 2025) to build an orphanage in a Jamaican village close to their home in that country
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1972· 1 entry
Released album “Give My Love to Rose”.
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1968· 2 entries
Cash proposed to Carter during a live performance at the London Ice House, at the time known as "Treasure Island Gardens", or just "The Gardens", in London, Ontario
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In 1968, Cash proposed to Carter during a live performance at the London Ice House, at the time known as "Treasure Island Gardens", or just "The Gardens", in London, Ontario.
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1967· 2 entries
Released album “Carryin’ On With Johnny Cash & June Carter”.
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The two found more substantial success with their recording of "Jackson", which was followed by a collaboration album, Carryin' On with Johnny Cash and June Carter
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1966· 1 entry
Because of June's affair with Johnny Cash
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1964· 1 entry
When she sang a duet with him on "It Ain't Me Babe", a Bob Dylan composition that was released as both a single and on Cash's album Orange Blossom Special
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1963· 1 entry
Cash recorded the song with the Carter Family singing backup and added mariachi horns
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1957· 1 entry
Carter married her second husband, police officer and former football player on November 11, 1957.
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1950· 1 entry
Opry management relented and the group, along with Atkins, became part of the Opry company
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1949· 1 entry
The Carter Sisters and Mother Maybelle, with their lead guitarist, Atkins, were living in Springfield, Missouri, and performing regularly at KWTO
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1929· 2 entries
Born 1929-06-23.
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In Maces Spring, Virginia, to Maybelle (née Addington) and Ezra Carter
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