Johnny Cash honored with a statue at the US Capitol

Country euphony icon, Johnny Cash, was honored with a statue wrong the United States Capitol.

The statue is 1 of 2 caller monuments added to the National Statuary Hall Collection to correspond the authorities of Arkansas successful the Capitol. Each authorities is allowed 2 statues successful the Capitol of notable individuals who correspond their authorities best.

Members of the Cash family, including his sister, Joanne Cash, and his daughter, Rosanne Cash, were contiguous erstwhile the statue was unveiled connected Tuesday morning, arsenic good arsenic Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., Arkansas' legislature delegation and Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

"I americium precise cautious not to enactment words successful his rima since his passing," Rosanne said during a code astatine the unveiling ceremony. "But connected this time I tin safely accidental that helium would consciousness that of each the galore honors and accolades helium received successful his lifetime, this is the ultimate."

Johnny Cash was honored with a statue successful the U.S. Capitol. (Ben Curtis | Beth Gwinn/Redferns)

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The statue, created by Little Rock sculptor Kevin Kresse, depicts the "Man In Black" looking down with a Bible successful his close manus and with a guitar slung crossed his back. The basal of the statue features his name, on with the twelvemonth helium was calved and the twelvemonth helium died, on with the words "Singer, Songwriter, Artist, Humanitarian," with antithetic quotes connected either side.

During the unveiling of the statue, the U.S. Air Force Band performed 1 of Johnny's biggest hits, "I Walk the Line," which was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame successful 1998, has a imperishable grounds astatine the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and was ranked No. 3 connected Rolling Stone's 2004 database of 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

"I americium precise cautious not to enactment words successful his rima since his passing, but connected this time I tin safely accidental that helium would consciousness that of each the galore honors and accolades helium received successful his lifetime, this is the ultimate."

Johnny's statue is joined by the statue of civilian rights leader, Daisy Bates, who acted arsenic a mentor to the 9 children who desegregated Little Rock Central High School successful 1957. They replaced the statues of Sen. James P. Clarke and the lawyer Uriah Rose.

This marks the archetypal clip successful past a instrumentalist was recognized with a statue successful the National Statuary Hall Collection.

The statue depicts Cash holding a Bible, with his guitar slung crossed his back. (Ben Curtis)

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The Arkansas authorities legislature voted successful 2019 to regenerate its 2 statues, which had been lasting successful the Capitol for implicit 100 years. Many antithetic humanities figures were considered, including Walmart laminitis Sam Walton and a Navy SEAL from the authorities who was killed successful Afghanistan, earlier they decided upon Johnny and Bates.

Johnny was calved successful the tiny municipality of Kingston, Arkansas, astir 60 miles extracurricular of Little Rock, successful the mediate of the Great Depression. After serving successful the Air Force, the vocalist tried galore antithetic careers earlier breaking into the euphony manufacture successful 1955 erstwhile helium signed with Sun Records. 

Over the years, helium would spell connected to merchantability 90 cardinal records, triumph 13 Grammy Awards and go 1 of the fewer artists successful past to beryllium inducted successful some the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

The 2005 movie "Walk the Line," starring Joaquin Phoenix arsenic Johnny and Reese Witherspoon arsenic his woman and chap state singer, June Carter Cash, told the communicative of the singer's hard travel from puerility to euphony icon, and the struggles helium faced with cause addiction. He died successful September 2003 astatine the property of 71, from complications associated with diabetes.

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Rosanne explained her dada utilized his struggles to marque large art. (Rick Diamond/Getty Images)

"In immoderate ways helium felt imprisoned by his ain addictions, woundedness, and suffering, and a batch of that went into his music," Rosanne told Music Mecca astir her father's struggles successful September 2022. "That’s the acquisition of a large artist, is taking that suffering and making large creation retired of it, which helium was fortunate capable to do."

The Associated Press contributed to this report

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