Charley Pride, first major Black star in country music, dies at 86 of covid-19
Charley Pride, first major Black star in country music, dies at 86 of covid-19 Terence McArdle Replay Video UP NEXT In the early 1960s, a young minor league baseball pitcher and aspiring country singer named Charley Pride had settled into a discouraging routine. His days were spent toiling in Helena, Mont., at a smelter operated by the Anaconda Copper Mining Co., and he spent his free time playing for its semipro baseball team, the East Helena Smelterites. He stood out as an African American working in a musical genre that seldom welcomed Black voices. But he developed a...
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