Name Rosie Adams Role Singer-songwriter | TV shows Grand Ole Opry | |
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Spouse Phillip Adams (m. 2000–2003), Mike Daniel (m. 1988–1995) Similar People June Carter Cash, Carlene Carter, John Carter Cash, Rosanne Cash, Kathy Cash | ||
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Rozanna "Rosie" Nix-Adams (July 13, 1958 – October 24, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter.
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Early life
Nix-Adams was the daughter of June Carter Cash and her second husband Edwin "Rip" Nix, and the stepdaughter of the Country singer Johnny Cash. Her first name was spelled as both "Rosie" and "Rosey", according to step-sister Rosanne Cash.
Career
Nix-Adams performed as a back-up singer for The Johnny Cash Show, David Grey, and Slim Whitman. She was also a semi-regular performing member of the Carter Family. She performed a duet with Cash on his 1974 single "Father and Daughter" (a remake of the Cat Stevens song "Father and Son") from the album The Junkie and the Juicehead Minus Me.
Personal life
Nix-Adams was married to Philip Adams. She was an alcoholic and a drug addict. Many of her episodes are detailed in the biography her half-brother wrote about their mother.
Death
Nix-Adams and bluegrass musician Jimmy Campbell were found dead on a bus in Montgomery County, Tennessee, on October 24, 2003. The deaths were initially called "suspicious" by law enforcement authorities but were subsequently ruled to be accidental, caused by carbon monoxide from a propane space heater, used without ventilation, in the bus. Nix-Adams was 45 years old. She was buried near her mother and stepfather (who had both died earlier that year) in the Hendersonville Memory Gardens in Hendersonville, Tennessee.