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Charley Pride

American singer
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Also known as: Charley Frank Pride
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In full:
Charley Frank Pride
Born:
March 18, 1934, Sledge, Mississippi, U.S.
Died:
December 12, 2020, Dallas, Texas (aged 86)
Awards And Honors:
Grammy Award (2017)
Grammy Award (1972)
Grammy Award (1971)
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Charley Pride (born March 18, 1934, Sledge, Mississippi, U.S.—died December 12, 2020, Dallas, Texas) American country music singer who broke new ground in the 1960s by becoming the most successful African American star that the field had known to date and a significant next-generation standard bearer for the hard-core honky-tonk country music sound. The son of poor, cotton-picking, sharecropping parents and one of 11 children, Pride was attracted in his youth both by Grand Ole Opry radio broadcasts featuring the “King of Country Music” Roy Acuff and honky-tonk artists Hank Williams and Ernest Tubb and by baseball. He received his ...(100 of 614 words)

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