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A five-time Grammy award-winner, she was a member of the Carter Family and the second wife of singer Johnny Cash.

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Prior to her marriage to Cash, she was known as June Carter and continued to be credited as such even after her marriage as well as on songwriting credits predating it. She played guitar, banjo , harmonica, and autoharp , and acted in several films and television shows. Her mother was a country music performer with June's aunt Sara and uncle A. Carter and she performed with the Carter Family from the age of 10, in In March , when the Carter Family trio stopped recording together at the end of the WBT contract, Maybelle Carter, with encouragement from her husband Ezra, formed "The Carter Sisters and Mother Maybelle" with her daughters, Helen on accordion, Anita Carter on bass fiddle and June on autoharp and as front person and comedian.

She attended John Marshall High School during this period. With her thin and lanky frame, June Carter often played a comedic foil during the group's performances alongside other Opry stars Faron Young and Webb Pierce. Carl McConnell wrote in his memoirs that June was "a natural-born clown, if there ever was one". Ezra "Eck" Carter, Maybelle's husband and manager of the group, declined numerous offers from the Grand Ole Opry to move the act to Nashville, Tennessee , because the Opry would not permit Atkins to accompany the group onstage.

Atkins' reputation as a guitar player had begun to spread, and studio musicians were fearful that he would displace them as a 'first-call' player if he came to Nashville. Finally, in , Opry management relented and the group, along with Atkins, became part of the Opry company.