Charley Pride, the first African - American singer dies of Covid - 19

Charley Pride, the first African - American singer dies of Covid - 19

By Onlykhabar News Media Sun 13 December, 2020 ( about 5 years ago ) 🎤1047 Viewersentertainment

Pride, who rose to fame in the 1960s, passed away on Saturday from complications of Covid-19.

While Pride was not the first black singer in country music, he became one of its biggest stars during a period of division in the US.  He won three Grammy Awards, followed by a lifetime achievement award in 2017.  Country star Dolly Parton, who described Pride as "one of my dearest and oldest friends, said she was "heartbroken" at the news of his death. Fifty-two of his songs reached the country Top 10, including the hits All I Have to Offer You (Is Me) and Kiss An Angel Good Mornin'.  The son of a sharecropper on a cotton farm in Mississippi, Pride was born in 1934 and served in the army, played baseball and worked in a smelting plant before later turning to music.

"We're not colour-blind yet, but we've advanced a few paces along the path and I like to think I've contributed something to that process," he wrote in his memoir. Fellow singers have paid tribute, with Reba McEntire writing: "Charley Pride will always be a legend in Country music." Pride was awarded the Country Music Association's Lifetime Achievement Award in Nashville, Texas, on 11 November, in what would be his last public performance. Billy Ray Cyrus, meanwhile, calling Pride a "gentleman... legend and true trail blazer", adding: "He took down walls and barriers meant to divide."

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Charley Pride, the first African - American singer dies of Covid - 19

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