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
Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience.
Fans will praise you, scold you, and offer helpful advice. Fans will also defend you.
It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.
Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously.
What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period.
I realize I was more of a curiosity to the older Nashville artists than the new ones.
I might have become a minor celebrity but royalty checks were a long way off.
I loved Mississippi and do to this day. The rainbows that stretch from horizon to horizon after a summer rain are the most spectacular I have ever seen.
I believe it is possible to tell what sign some people were born under by watching their eyes, watching how they walk, how they talk.
I always wanted to grow up fast. I longed for more than the Mississippi Delta could give.
I think there's enough room in country music for everybody.
Besides good schools, a good airport, and the Cowboys, Dallas had golf courses, and golf was fast becoming an obsession with me.
I've seen people who have been coming to my shows for 25 years.
My brothers and sisters all sang, too, and they all have good voices.