Whitey Ford
12-12-2020, 07:21 PM
I remember being a small kid wayyy back in the day and wondering WTF is a nigger doing singing country music?
Country music's first black superstar Charley Pride dies of COVID-19 at age 86, as Dolly Parton pays tribute to her 'dearest and oldest friend'
https://i.imgur.com/1Hb6fAI.jpg
Charley Pride, the son of Mississippi sharecroppers, died in Dallas on Saturday
Pride played minor league baseball and had a tryout before moving to Nashville
In Nashville in the mid 1960s he became a full-time country music singer
He went on to sell more than 25 million records and win three Grammys
Pride had more than 30 No. 1 hits between 1969 and 1984
He played down his race, saying the U.S. was 'ate-up with colors and pigments'
The groundbreaking musician said: 'I call it "skin hang-ups" — it's a disease'
Dolly Parton said that Pride was among 'my dearest and oldest friends'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9047077/Country-musics-black-superstar-Charley-Pride-dies-COVID-19-age-86.html
Country music's first black superstar Charley Pride dies of COVID-19 at age 86, as Dolly Parton pays tribute to her 'dearest and oldest friend'
https://i.imgur.com/1Hb6fAI.jpg
Charley Pride, the son of Mississippi sharecroppers, died in Dallas on Saturday
Pride played minor league baseball and had a tryout before moving to Nashville
In Nashville in the mid 1960s he became a full-time country music singer
He went on to sell more than 25 million records and win three Grammys
Pride had more than 30 No. 1 hits between 1969 and 1984
He played down his race, saying the U.S. was 'ate-up with colors and pigments'
The groundbreaking musician said: 'I call it "skin hang-ups" — it's a disease'
Dolly Parton said that Pride was among 'my dearest and oldest friends'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9047077/Country-musics-black-superstar-Charley-Pride-dies-COVID-19-age-86.html