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
