A statue of Johnny Cash will soon be unveiled at the at U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson and Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries announced that the statue of the country music legend will be revealed at Emancipation Hall in the Capitol's Visitor Center during a ceremony with political leaders and Cash's family on September 24.
The statue of Cash stands at eight-feet-high and was created by sculptor Kevin Kresse of Little Rock, AR. It features the country icon standing with with a guitar slung across his back and holding a Bible in his hand.
Cash will become the second statue of an Arkansas native to be erected in the Capitol, following last year's unveiling of Civil Rights leader Daisy Bates, who headed Arkansas' chapter of the NAACP.
He was born Kingsland, AR on February 26, 1932 and died in Nashville, TN on September 12, 2003 at the age of 71.
Both statues will be featured in Capitol's National Statuary Hall Collection, which houses two statues per state.
Throughout his near-50-year career, Cash sold more than 90 million records across multiple genres including country, rock, gospel and blues. He was inducted into both the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1980 and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1992, and won 13 Grammy Awards.
See a Kresse's post revealing the statue below.