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Charley Pride, Country Music's First Major Black Star, Dies At 86 By Jason Slotkin | NPR Saturday, December 12, 2020 Country music legend Charley Pride died on Saturday at age 86 from complications of COVID-19. Pride, who gave his final performance last month at the CMA Awards in Nashville, Tenn., was the first Black performer inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Terry Wyatt / Getty Images for CMA Charley Pride, who sold millions of records and was the first Black performer to become a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, among many other honors, has died...

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Baseball’s loss was the music world’s gain when Charley Pride failed to make it from Negro League Baseball to Major League Baseball and took up music instead. On Saturday the world suffered the loss of the first Black superstar of country music when Pride died at 86. Sadly, Pride became one of nearly 300,000 Americans killed by COVID-19, as the raging pandemic continues to take a tragic toll in the U.S. and around the world. Born in 1934 into a sharecropper family of 11 children in the delta town of Sledge, M...

Charley Pride, first Black country music superstar, dead at 86 from COVID-19

Charley Pride died Saturday (Dec. 12), at the age of 86, of COVID-19 complications.

Dolly Parton turned to social media to react to Charley Pride's death after the news broke on Saturday afternoon (Dec. 12).