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Charley Pride, country music's first Black superstar, dead at 86 UPI News Service, 12/12/2020  Charley Pride, country music's first Black superstar, died Saturday due to complications of COVID-19. He was 86. ADVERTISEMENT A statement on Pride's website reported the singer's death in Dallas, and Pride's publicist, Jeremy Westby, confirmed to reporters. Pride was born March 18, 1934, in Sledge, Miss., to sharecroppers Tessie Stewart Pride and Mack Pride, Sr. He served in the Army, worked at a smelting plant and briefly tried to make it as a baseball player before his 1963 move t...

Charley Pride death: Country music legend passes away at 86 from COVID-19 complications Sat Dec 12, 2020 at 8:54pm ET Country music star Charley Pride has passed away from COVID-19 complications. Pic credit: ©ImageCollect.com/Featureflash Charley Pride, the first African American to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, has passed away at the age of 86. Charley Pride cause of death Pride passed away after recently contracting COVID-19.  He was admitted to the ICU of a local Dallas hospital after falling ill and later moved to a hospice where he died on Saturday. Sign up for our n...

Charley Pride – a Country Music Hall of Fame singer who rose from rural Mississippi to become the genre's first Black superstar – died Saturday at age 86. The "Kiss An Angel Good Mornin'" star died in Dallas because of complications from COVID-19, according to a news release from his publicist, Jeremy Westby.  With a career spanning more than five decades, Pride cemented a trailblazing legacy unlike any entertainer before him. Launching his career in the 1960s, in the height of civil rights movement, Pride became the first Black man to outright conquer country music fame. He overcame a...