The famous country singer Tommy Cash is dead. The younger brother of music legend Johnny Cash was 84 years old.
He was less well-known internationally than his big brother Johnny Cash (1932-2003), but was anything but unknown in the US country music scene: the musician Tommy Cash has died at the age of 84. The museum’s managing director and founder Bill Miller wrote that they had lost a “very, very dear friend”. Tommy Cash was a much-loved member of the Cash family and a highly respected member of the music industry. The cause of death was not disclosed.
Tommy Cash was born in 1940 in Dyess, Arkansas, around eight years after his famous brother. He and Johnny were two of seven siblings. At the age of 18, he joined the US Army and was stationed in Frankfurt am Main, where he hosted a radio show on the soldiers’ radio station AFN. From the mid-1960s, he appeared as a musician and was able to score top positions in the US charts several times.
The last Tommy Cash album was released in 2008
His most famous song is “Six White Horses” from 1969, which addressed the fatal assassinations of John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968) and Martin Luther King (1929-1968). Tommy Cash released his last album, “Fade to Black,” in 2008 and his last single, “Ramblin’ Kind,” in 2009.
Source: Stern
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