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Country Music Hall of Fame
-- inducted 2000
Charley Pride is one of Country Music's Premier Artists.
Born to sharecroppers as one of eleven children in Sledge, Mississippi,
Pride is a timeless everyman revered by his peers and adored by countless millions of fans
around the globe. His golden baritone voice has transcended race and spanned the
generations.
Charley Pride unofficially started his music career in the late 1950's as a ballplayer with the Negro American League's Memphis Red Sox singing and playing guitar on the team bus between ballparks. Self-taught on a guitar bought at the age of 14 from Sears Roebuck, Pride would join various bands onstage as he and the team roved the country.
After a tryout with the New York Mets, Pride decided to return to his Montana home via Nashville. It was there he met Jack Johnson, who upon hearing the singer perform, sent him on his way with the promise of a management contract and a newly forged relationship that would last for over a decade.
Over the next thirty years, Pride's popularity has increased dramatically and to this day he remains one of the Top 20 best-selling country artists of all-time. His incredible legacy includes 36 #1 hits, more than 35 million albums sold, 31 gold and 4 platinum albums – including one quadruple platinum. On RCA Records, Charley Pride is second in sales only to Elvis Presley!
Dozens of Pride's chart-toppers now stand as modern classics. "Kiss An Angel Good Morning" went on to be a million-selling crossover single and helped Pride land Country Music Association Awards as Entertainer of the Year in 1971 and Top Male Vocalist in 1971 and 1972.
On May 1, 1993, Pride accepted a long-standing invitation to join the Grand Ole Opry, 26 years after he first played there as a guest, the first African-American in its more than 70 year history.
In January 1996, Charley Pride was honored with a Trumpet Award by Turner Broadcasting, marking outstanding African-American Achievement. In between, his "Roll on Mississippi" was considered as the official song of his home state, a stretch of Mississippi highway was named for him, and he headlined a special Christmas performance for President and Mrs. Clinton at the White House.
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