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Country Music’s First Black Superstar, Charley Pride, Dies From COVID-19

DALLAS, Texas (Gray News) – Charley Pride, the first Black singer to perform at the Grand Ole Opry, died Saturday of complications of COVID-19 at age 86,, his publicity agents confirmed in a news release.

Pride was also the first Black artist inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

He was born a sharecropper’s son in Sledge, Mississippi, on March 18, 1934.

Source: WMC

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