I'm with you on his ordinary country style. Still Charlie was a trailblazer of sorts. Full credit for that.
Charley Pride, Pioneering Black Country Singer, Dead at 86
Country Music Hall of Fame member died in Texas from complications related to Covid-19
Joseph Hudak
Charley Pride performs on a TV show, London, February 1975. (Photo by Michael Putland/Getty Images)
Charley Pride, the pioneering black country singer known for such hits as “Kiss an Angel Good Mornin'” and “Is Anybody Goin’ to San Antone,” has died in Dallas, Texas, from complications related to Covid-19, according to his publicist. He was 86.
Born in Sledge, Mississippi, in 1934, Pride picked cotton, played baseball in the Negro leagues, served in the U.S. Army, and worked in a smelting plant in Montana before moving to Nashville and becoming country music’s first black superstar. He scored 52 Top 10 country hits, including 29 Number Ones, and was the first African-American performer to appear on the Grand Ole Opry stage since Deford Bailey made his debut in the 1920s. Pride became an Opry member in 1993. In 2000, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
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