Trailblazing country music star Charley Pride died in December 2020, leaving behind a legacy that includes over 40 No. 1 hits and millions of record sales. After his death, it was confirmed that some ...

Barrier-breaking country star Charley Pride was at No. 1 with the biggest crossover hit of his career on this day in 1972.

Country music lost a trailblazer five years ago, December 12, when Charley Pride, the first Black star in country music, died at age 86.

In the mid-1980s, when Charley Pride was in between record contracts, he went into a Dallas studio with an all-star cast of area musicians to record a series of songs by Brook Benton. He intended to ...

Pride’s death came just weeks after he received a lifetime achievement award at the Country Music Association Awards. And now, all these years after his death, Pride has one final gift to give back to ...

Charley Pride was the first great African American star of country music. Born in Sledge, MS in 1938, Pride left farm life behind and had a budding baseball career in the Negro and minor leagues. He ...

The beauty of love songs, especially love songs in country music, is the feelings they evoke years, and sometimes even ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A band, “country music’s first Black superstar,” and a prolific songwriter will be inducted into the Music City Walk of Fame in November. The inductees include Old Dominion, ...

Pride was honored at the CMAs with a lifetime achievement award last month. Charley Pride, the pioneering Black country music legend who topped the charts with dozens of songs, has died at 86 due to ...