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Charley Pride
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Overview
Born
March 18
,
1934
·
Sledge, Mississippi, USA
Died
December 12
,
2020
·
Dallas, Texas, USA
(complications from COVID-19)
Birth name
Charley Frank Pride
Nicknames
"Country" Charlie Pride
The Pride of Country Music
Height
6′ 1″ (1.85 m)
Mini Bio
Charley Pride was born on March 18, 1934 in Sledge, Mississippi, USA. He was an actor, known for
Breakdown (1997)
,
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
and
Supernatural (2005)
. He was married to
Rozene Pride
. He died on December 12, 2020 in Dallas, Texas, USA.
Family
Spouse
Rozene Pride
(December 28, 1956 - December 12, 2020) (his death, 3 children)
Trivia
Played baseball in the Negro American League.
To date (2012), Pride,
Ray Charles
and
Darius Rucker
form the trinity of only African-Americans to have conquered the country music charts.
Made his first national appearance on TV in the premiere episode of
Hee Haw (1969)
June 15, 1969.
Is the uncle of former major league baseball player Curtis Pride.
Became a member of the Grand Ole Opry on May 1, 1993.
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A fan will grab you and hug you and will not let go. When that happens, you wish it could be that way all over the world.
It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.
No one told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another. I sang what I liked in the only voice I had.
When I'm asked how I'm doing, I like to reply 'Pretty good. I've got all my fingers and both eyes.'
An entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience.
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