Charley Pride

Charley Pride (born March 18, 1934, Sledge, Mississippi, U.S.—died December 12, 2020, Dallas, Texas) was an 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...