Biography of country singer charlie pride
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Charley Pride
Charley Frank Pride (March 18, 1934 – December 12, 2020) was an American country music singer, recording artist, baseball player, and businessman. Along with Stoney Edwards and O.B. McClinton, Pride was and remains one of the most notable black country singers of the 1960s and 1970s.
Early life
[change | change source]Charley Pride was born on March 18, 1938 in Sledge, Mississippi to a family of sharecroppers. A mistake on his birth certificate reads his first name as "Charl." Growing up, Pride dreamed of becoming a baseball pitcher and learned to play the guitar at the age of 14.
Pride got his uppstart in baseball in The American Negro League for many teams, including the Mississippi Red Sox, the Birmingham Black Barons, the New York Mets and the Boise Yankees. (The C grupp for the New York Yankees). It was during this time Pride met and married his wife, Rozene.
Music career and rise to fame
[change | change source]Pride was known to sing
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Becoming a trailblazing Country Music superstar was an improbable destiny for Charley Pride considering his humble beginnings as a sharecropper’s son on a cotton farm in Sledge, Mississippi. His unique journey to the top of the music charts includes a detour through the world of Negro league, minor league and semi-pro baseball as well as hard years of labor alongside the vulcanic fires of a smelter. But in the end, with boldness, perseverance and undeniable musical talent, he managed to parlay a series of fortuitous encounters with Nashville insiders into an amazing legacy of hit singles and tens of millions in record sales.
Growing up, Charley was exposed primarily to Blues, Gospel and Country music. His father inadvertently fostered Charley’s love of Country music by tuning the family’s Philco radio to Nashville’s WSM-AM in order to catch Grand Ole Opry broadcasts. At 14 years of age, Charley purchased his first guitar—a Silvertone from a Sears Roebuck catalog—and taught himself
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Charley Pride
American country musician (1934–2020)
Charley Pride | |
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Pride performing at Capital Centre on Inauguration Day, January 1981 | |
| Birth name | Charley Frank Pride |
| Born | (1934-03-18)March 18, 1934 Sledge, Mississippi, U.S. |
| Died | December 12, 2020(2020-12-12) (aged 86) Dallas, Texas, U.S. |
| Genres | Country |
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| Years active | 1952–2020 |
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| Website | charleypride.com |
Baseball player Baseball career | |
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Batted: Switch Threw: Right | |
| 1953, for the Memphis Red Sox | |
| 1958, for the Memphis Red Sox | |
Musical artist
Charley Frank Pride (March 18, 1934 – December 12, 2020) was an American country singer. Beginning his career as a Negro league baseball player in the early-1950s, he later pursued a career in country music, becoming the genre's first major black superstar.[1] The period of his greatest musical success was from around 1969 to 1975, when he