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During a 2021 appearance on Finding Your Roots, Roseanne Cash learned the truth of her mother Vivian Liberto's Black ancestry and that her dad Johnny Cash had a Black acnestor.
Vivian Distin (née Liberto, formerly Cash; April 23, 1934 – May 24, 2005) was an American homemaker and author. She is notable as the first wife of singer Johnny Cash and mother of their four daughters. She inspired his first hit single "I Walk the Line".
DNA test reveals Johnny Cash's first wife Vivian Liberto, who believed she was of Sicilian, German and Irish heritage, was actually descended from a black slave. Vivian Liberto met Johnny...
Between 1954 and 1966, Vivian Liberto was the first wife of country singer Johnny Cash — and the victim of widespread hatred over her racial identity.
Cash denied his first wife, Vivian, was African American during a 1965 boycott by racists sparked by a photo of them together. The questions about Vivian's ancestry were finally resolved on the...
“It feels heartbreaking,” Rosanne Cash admitted through tears after finding out that an ancestor of her mother, Vivian Liberto Cash — the first wife of singer-songwriter Johnny Cash, who both...
“Peace in the Valley” singer Johnny Cash’s first wife had Black ancestry according to a DNA test performed for the show “Finding Your Roots.”
Vivian Liberto was Johnny Cash's first wife before he famously left her for June Carter. Here's everything to know about his first marriage.
While their love story has been elevated to epic status thanks to a number of media portrayals, like 2005’s Walk the Line, Cash’s marriage to his first wife Vivian Liberto has been a blind...
Johnny Cash's met his first wife, Vivian Liberto, shortly before he shipped out to Germany with the Air Force. According to SFGate, they exchanged some 10,000 pages of love letters during his enlistment.