Charley Pride
Charley Pride
Charley Frank Prideis an American country music singer, musician/guitarist, recording artist, performer, and business owner. His greatest musical success came in the early- to mid-1970s when he became the best-selling performer for RCA Records since Elvis Presley. During the peak years of his recording career, he garnered 52 top-ten hits on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, 29 of which made it to number one...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth18 March 1938
CitySledge, MS
CountryUnited States of America
It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.
I was sometimes jeered by black soldiers who wanted me to sing something besides country music.
Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did.
What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't.
There were no guarantees that country music, whose roots were in the South, were ready for Charley Pride.
It was unlikely that anyone had ever heard a black person sing country music.
I might have become a minor celebrity but royalty checks were a long way off.
I've seen people who have been coming to my shows for 25 years.
I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.
Even now, when I'm asked how I'm doing, I like to reply, 'Pretty good. I've got all my fingers and both eyes.
Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience.
Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs.
I don't care what the religion is called; as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere to, is in charge of all of them.
It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now.