• About
  • Contact
  • Privacy
  • Terms
  • DMCA
  • Sitemap
  • Write For Us
Wednesday, March 3, 2021
Daily illinois - USA | News, Sports & Updates Web Magazine
  • Covid-19
  • News
    • All
    • Education
    • Politics
    • Sports
    • World
    FBI Director Says Domestic Extremism ‘Metastasizing’ Around The Country

    FBI Director Says Domestic Extremism ‘Metastasizing’ Around The Country

    Top racing trainer Gordon Elliott apologizes over photo of himself sitting on a dead horse

    Horse racing faces fresh scrutiny after footage appears of a jockey posing on a dead horse

    6 Dr. Seuss Books Will No Longer Be Published Over Offensive Images

    6 Dr. Seuss Books Will No Longer Be Published Over Offensive Images

    Molly-Mae has now been found in breach of the Advertising Code for her online competition

    Molly-Mae Hague breaks advertising code for Instagram giveaway

    Elizabeth Warren rips stock buybacks as 'nothing but paper manipulation'

    Elizabeth Warren rips stock buybacks as ‘nothing but paper manipulation’

    This is the car that golf legend Tiger Woods was driving when seriously injured in a rollover accident on Tuesday.

    Tiger Woods Faces Tough Recovery From Leg Injuries Sustained In Car Crash

    Marissa Mayer Missed a Big Meeting by Over-Napping: What Entrepreneurs Should Take From Her 'Woops' Moment

    Marissa Mayer Missed a Big Meeting by Over-Napping: What Entrepreneurs Should Take From Her ‘Woops’ Moment

    Trump blasts GOP lawmakers who voted to impeach: 'Get rid of them all'

    Trump blasts GOP lawmakers who voted to impeach: ‘Get rid of them all’

    Sabres' Eichel day-to-day; Ullmark still out

    Sabres’ Eichel day-to-day; Ullmark still out

    John Oliver Unloads on ‘Colossal Asshole’ Andrew Cuomo

    John Oliver Unloads on ‘Colossal Asshole’ Andrew Cuomo

  • Science & Tech
    • All
    • Mobile
    Best Cheap Wireless Keyboard Deals for March 2021 | Digital Trends

    Best Cheap Wireless Keyboard Deals for March 2021 | Digital Trends

    6 steps to build a data-driven company, according to experts

    6 steps to build a data-driven company, according to experts

    Xiaomi Mi 11 back against floor

    Xiaomi, not Samsung or Apple, is taking advantage of Huawei’s woes in Europe

    'DarkModeBuddy' is a new Mac app for automating Dark Mode switching based on ambient light - 9to5Mac

    ‘DarkModeBuddy’ is a new Mac app for automating Dark Mode switching based on ambient light – 9to5Mac

    A powerline tower in a grassy field.

    Hackers tied to Russia’s GRU targeted the US grid for years

    Microsoft’s Xbox Game Streaming app for Windows includes touch controls, gyro, and more

    Microsoft’s Xbox Game Streaming app for Windows includes touch controls, gyro, and more

    FDA advisors endorse Janssen's single-shot COVID-19 vaccine

    FDA advisors endorse Janssen’s single-shot COVID-19 vaccine

    Facebook apologizes for 'mistake' in threatening to ban 81-year-old woolen pig knitter for hate speech

    Facebook apologizes for ‘mistake’ in threatening to ban 81-year-old woolen pig knitter for hate speech

    How will NASA's Perseverance rover engineers pilot first helicopter on Mars?

    How will NASA’s Perseverance rover engineers pilot first helicopter on Mars?

    Sir David Attenborough narrates the "exhibits" in this AR iPhone app

    Sir David Attenborough narrates the “exhibits” in this AR iPhone app

  • Entertainment
    • All
    • Gaming
    • Movie
    • Music
    Why Fox News is having a day-long meltdown over Dr. Seuss

    Why Fox News is having a day-long meltdown over Dr. Seuss

    What Jeffrey Epstein did was vile. Why Dasha Nekrasova made a horror movie about it

    What Jeffrey Epstein did was vile. Why Dasha Nekrasova made a horror movie about it

    Morgan Wallen fans vote him back onto Tennessee radio after racist-slur controversy

    Morgan Wallen fans vote him back onto Tennessee radio after racist-slur controversy

    The 2021 Golden Globes proved we no longer need the Golden Globes

    The 2021 Golden Globes proved we no longer need the Golden Globes

    Melissa Trueblood, who has worked for the Golden Globes for 20 years, is helping put together a show for the history books.

    A Golden Globes production veteran explains how to put together a show during a pandemic

    Lawyer for Britney Spears' dad defends him, but #FreeBritney fans aren't having it

    Lawyer for Britney Spears’ dad defends him, but #FreeBritney fans aren’t having it

    Why 'Small Axe' is the Golden Globe nominee you need to catch up on first

    Why ‘Small Axe’ is the Golden Globe nominee you need to catch up on first

    Ava Max released her debut album,

    Ava Max Looks To A Post-Pandemic Future With Her Euphoric New Video

    22 weekend culture picks: A Belafonte birthday bash with Jay-Z and Tiffany Haddish

    22 weekend culture picks: A Belafonte birthday bash with Jay-Z and Tiffany Haddish

    Broadway Is Dark. London Is Quiet. But in Australia, It’s Showtime.

    Broadway Is Dark. London Is Quiet. But in Australia, It’s Showtime.

  • Lifestyle
    • All
    • Fashion
    • Food
    • Travel
    Spoon By H, a Korean restaurant and café closed its doors on Saturday, Feb. 27, after it shared Instagram posts detailing its struggles with fighting refund requests it deemed fraudulent. (Google Maps)

    Restaurants are reportedly being hurt by refund request scams

    12 fashion and beauty brands that give back to women

    12 fashion and beauty brands that give back to women

    What you need to know before you take a road trip this spring

    What you need to know before you take a road trip this spring

    Coronavirus in Illinois updates: Here’s what happened March 1 with COVID-19 in the Chicago area

    Coronavirus in Illinois updates: Here’s what happened March 1 with COVID-19 in the Chicago area

    Why East L.A. community members still worry about the future of a beloved tree

    Why East L.A. community members still worry about the future of a beloved tree

    When can we go on vacation again? This is what experts say

    When can we go on vacation again? This is what experts say

    Style Picks: Everything On Our March Wish List

    Style Picks: Everything On Our March Wish List

    Emmanuel Faber - stepping down from CEO role

    Emmanuel Faber to stand down as Danone CEO amid investor pressure

    Prince Harry revealed that he and Meghan began their relationship "upside-down," in that they dated in private at first, before revealing themselves to the public as a couple.

    Queen Elizabeth bought grandson Archie a waffle maker for Christmas, Prince Harry says

    NBC’s “78th Annual Golden Globe Awards” - Winners Press Experience

    Is Nomadland now the Oscar frontrunner for Best Picture? It’s complicated.

37 °f
Chicago
33 ° Thu
33 ° Fri
33 ° Sat
35 ° Sun
No Result
View All Result
Daily illinois - USA | News, Sports & Updates Web Magazine
No Result
View All Result
Home Entertainment Music

Charley Pride, the ‘Jackie Robinson of country music,’ dies at 86 of COVID-19

by Staff Writer
December 13, 2020
in Music
Reading Time: 6min read
0
Charley Pride, the 'Jackie Robinson of country music,' dies at 86 of COVID-19
491
SHARES
1.4k
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter


The guitar that changed his life cost $10 and came out of the Sears Roebuck catalog. Charley Pride was 14 at the time, one of 11 children of a sharecropper in Sledge, Miss., a cotton town in the Delta. With that guitar, he learned how to play the tunes he heard emanating from the Grand Ole Opry’s famed broadcasts on WSM Radio, inspired by country acts such the Louvin Brothers and Smilin’ Eddie Hill.

Related posts

Morgan Wallen fans vote him back onto Tennessee radio after racist-slur controversy

Morgan Wallen fans vote him back onto Tennessee radio after racist-slur controversy

March 2, 2021
The 2021 Golden Globes proved we no longer need the Golden Globes

The 2021 Golden Globes proved we no longer need the Golden Globes

March 1, 2021

Country music was no ordinary path for a Black kid growing up in the segregated South. But Pride was never destined to be ordinary. In fact, his meteoric career was highly unlikely in an area of music that to this day remains overwhelmingly white.

Pride sold millions of albums, becoming country music’s first Black superstar. He was the first Black member of the Country Music Hall of Fame. The first — and still the only — Black musician to receive the Country Music Awards’ Entertainer of the Year award (back in 1971). And the first — and the only — Black entertainer to receive the CMA’s prestigious Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award (presented last month).

“I get a lot of questions you know,” he told NPR in 2000, upon his induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame. “‘Charley, how’d you get into country music?’ And ‘Why you don’t sound like you’re supposed to sound?’ Well, it is a little unique, I admit, but I’ve been singing country music since I was about 5 years old, and this is what I sound like.”

Pride, an entertainer known for his congenial manner, his smooth, baritone vocals on hits such as “Is Anybody Goin’ to San Antone” and dapper get-ups that eschewed all the tropes of country music (no rhinestones or 10-gallon hats for him), died Saturday in Dallas, his home since the 1970s.

The singer, 86, died of complications from COVID-19. His death was confirmed by a press representative.

As the news broke on Saturday, fellow country stars immediately took to Twitter to mourn his passing.

“I’m so heartbroken that one of my dearest and oldest friends, Charley Pride, has passed away,” tweeted Dolly Parton.

I’m so heartbroken that one of my dearest and oldest friends, Charley Pride, has passed away. It’s even worse to know that he passed away from COVID-19. What a horrible, horrible virus. Charley, we will always love you. (1/2)

— Dolly Parton (@DollyParton) December 12, 2020

Reba McEntire wrote that Pride “will always be remembered for his great music, wonderful personality and his big heart.” Singer-songwriter Jason Isbell described it as “a sad day for American music.”

“To say Country Music has lost a trailblazer is an obvious understatement,” Country Music Assn. CEO Sarah Trahern said in a statement, “but in fact one of the biggest losses is Charley’s definitive Country voice.”

Pride’s last performance was at the Country Music Awards in November, where, in a blue suit, he crooned “Kiss An Angel Good Mornin’” with fellow musician Jimmie Allen.

His death, just one month after the awards show, led to speculation on social media about where Pride may have contracted the disease.

Country singer Mickey Guyton shared a broken heart emoji on Twitter upon hearing the news of Pride’s death. She followed that up with another Tweet: “We need answers as to how Charley Pride got covid.”

Times music critic Mikael Wood had criticized the show last month for seeming intent on avoiding the realities of the pandemic. At the indoor event, unmasked performers shared relatively intimate quarters with one another and their plus ones.

We need answers as to how Charley Pride got covid.

— Mickey Guyton (@MickeyGuyton) December 12, 2020

But mostly, Pride’s death was marked by reverent recollection. Documentarian Ken Burns, who interviewed Pride for his series “Country Music,” tweeted that the singer’s “remarkable voice & generous spirit broke down barriers in country music.”

Ironically, while music is how he is most likely to be remembered, in his early years, it didn’t seem as if it would ever amount to much more than a hobby. Pride spent much of his young adulthood pursuing a career as a baseball player in the Negro and minor leagues — but was ultimately sidelined by injuries. For a time, he worked in a Montana smelting plant. On the side, he would occasionally perform local club gigs.

These landed him on the line-up for a concert in Helena, Mont., in 1962, performing two songs: “Heartaches by the Number” and “Lovesick Blues.” It was where Pride’s musical fortunes began to change. The singer made an impression on Grand Ole Opry star Red Sovine, who suggested the young man take his talents to the Nashville music scene.

“Go to Nashville,” Pride recalls Sovine told him in his 1994 autobiography, “Pride: The Charley Pride Story.” “I don’t care what color you are.”

The suggestion would ultimately lead him to his longtime manager Jack Johnson, producer Jack Clement and a recording contract with RCA.

By 1967, Pride had broken into the country Top Ten with “Just Between You and Me.” In 1971, he would release the biggest hit of his career, the twangy “Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’,” which topped the country charts for five weeks and became a Top 40 hit.

Ultimately, Pride would land more than two dozen No. 1 hits on the Billboard country singles chart and become the second best-selling act of all time at RCA — outdone only by Elvis Presley.

For his achievements, he was frequently described as the “Jackie Robinson of country music” by the press. But, throughout his career, Pride often deflected questions about the significance of his race — with amiability and biting wit.

In a 2018 interview with Sports Illustrated, he said: “People used to ask me how it felt to be the first colored country singer. Then the first Negro country singer. Then the first black country singer. Then the first Afro-American country singer. And I always say, ‘Feels the same as it did when I was colored.’”

Charley Pride had a career that took him from baseball to country music.

(Joseph Llanes)

Charley Frank Pride was born in rural Sledge, Miss., on March 18, 1934, the son of Mack Pride Sr. and Tessie Stewart Pride. When the young Charley wasn’t in school, he was helping the family pick cotton.

While he developed an interest in music from an early age, he initially banked on baseball as a way out of farm labor.

“I saw Robinson get to the majors, and I said, here’s my way out of the cotton fields,” he told Sports Illustrated.

For a time, he pitched and played the outfield for the Memphis Red Sox, a Negro League club. In the early ’50s, he was signed by the New York Yankees’ Class C team in Boise, Idaho. But an arm injury prevented any advancement. He spent the subsequent years — into the early ’60s — bouncing around various leagues.

By 1963, he gave up the baseball and turned his attention to music. But he never gave up his love of the game, frequently turning up at the Texas Rangers’ spring camp in Arizona to train with the players (even at the age of 84). For the past decade, he was part of the team’s ownership group.

Pride is survived by his wife, Ebby Rozene Cohran Pride, three children — Carlton Kraig Pride, Charles Dion Pride and Angela Rozene Pride — as well as five grandchildren and two great grandchildren. He is also survived by four of his 10 siblings: Harmon Pride, Stephen Pride, Catherine Sanders and Maxine Pride.





Source by www.latimes.com

Share196Tweet123Share49
  • Trending
  • Comments
  • Latest
Van Morrison teams with Eric Clapton for anti-lockdown song

Van Morrison teams with Eric Clapton for anti-lockdown song

December 19, 2020
Sen. Rand Paul's ‘Festivus Report’ claims $54B in tax dollars was 'totally wasted'

Sen. Rand Paul’s ‘Festivus Report’ claims $54B in tax dollars was ‘totally wasted’

December 23, 2020
'Zombie' greenhouse gas lurks in permafrost beneath the Arctic Ocean

‘Zombie’ greenhouse gas lurks in permafrost beneath the Arctic Ocean

December 24, 2020
Spoon By H, a Korean restaurant and café closed its doors on Saturday, Feb. 27, after it shared Instagram posts detailing its struggles with fighting refund requests it deemed fraudulent. (Google Maps)

Restaurants are reportedly being hurt by refund request scams

0
Fact check: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced he would defer his annual raise

Fact check: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced he would defer his annual raise

0
Swedish government sidelines epidemiologist who steered country's no lockdown experiment as deaths rise

Swedish government sidelines epidemiologist who steered country’s no lockdown experiment as deaths rise

0
Spoon By H, a Korean restaurant and café closed its doors on Saturday, Feb. 27, after it shared Instagram posts detailing its struggles with fighting refund requests it deemed fraudulent. (Google Maps)

Restaurants are reportedly being hurt by refund request scams

March 3, 2021
12 fashion and beauty brands that give back to women

12 fashion and beauty brands that give back to women

March 3, 2021
What you need to know before you take a road trip this spring

What you need to know before you take a road trip this spring

March 3, 2021
Daily illinois - USA | News, Sports & Updates Web Magazine

Copyright © 2020 Dailyillinois.com.

Navigate Site

  • About
  • Contact
  • Privacy
  • Terms
  • DMCA
  • Sitemap
  • Write For Us

Follow Us

No Result
View All Result
  • About Us Page
  • Contact
  • DMCA Policy
  • Home 1
  • Privacy Policy
  • Submit, Guest Post, Write For Us and Become a Contributor
  • Terms of Use

Copyright © 2020 Dailyillinois.com.

This website uses cookies. By continuing to use this website you are giving consent to cookies being used. Visit our Privacy and Cookie Policy.