| Genres: |
Christian & Gospel,
Country & Bluegrass
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| Descriptive "tags": |
country, classic country, charley pride, male vocalists, oldies
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| Decades Active: |
1960s,
1970s,
1980s,
1990s,
2000s
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| Links online: |
IMDb,
Official Homepage,
Wikipedia
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Biography
18 March 1938, Sledge, Mississippi, USA. Charley Pride was born on a cotton farm, which, as a result of his success, he was later able to purchase. Pride says, ‘My dad named me Charl Frank Pride, but I was born in the country and the midwife wrote it down as Charley’. Harold Dorman, who wrote and recorded ‘Mountain of Love’, also hails from Sledge and wrote ‘Mississippi Cotton Picking Delta Town’ about the area, for Pride. As an adolescent, Pride followed what he heard on the radio with a cheap guitar, breaking with stereotypes by preferring country music to the blues. He played baseball professionally but he reverted to music when the Los Angeles Angels told him that he did not have a ‘major league arm’. In 1965 producer Jack Clement brought Pride to Chet Atkins at RCA Records. They considered not disclosing that he was black until the records were established, but Atkins decided that it was unfair to all concerned....
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