The fourth of eleven children, Charley Pride grew up in a shotgun shack in the Mississippi Delta. His father was a sharecropper and Charley’s earliest memories always included dreams of doing ...

Charley Pride, the first African-American to enter the Country Music Hall of Fame, has died aged 86, his website has announced. Pride, who rose to fame in the 1960s, passed away on Saturday from ...

Charley Pride: I’m Just Me traces the improbable journey of Charley Pride, from his humble beginnings as a sharecropper’s son on a cotton farm in segregated Sledge, Mississippi to his career ...

Charley Pride was one of the entertainers who came ... What we all really need to read right now is that two refrigerated trucks are ready to store bodies. (“County has 2 refrigerated trucks ...

The feisty Loretta Lynn writes and performs songs that speak frankly on behalf of women. Charley Pride becomes a country star when people respond to the quality of his voice instead of the color ...