He overcame club audiences unwilling to hear a Black singer cover Hank Williams and promoters equally skeptical at hosting his performances to once being the best-selling artist on RCA Records since Elvis Presley. In a career spanning more than five decades, Pride cemented a trailblazing legacy unlike any entertainer before him. The 'Kiss An Angel Good Mornin' singer died in Dallas, Texas, due to complications from COVID-19, according to a news release from his publicist, Jeremy Westby.
View Gallery: Charley Pride over the yearsĬharley Pride - a sharecropper's son who rose from rural Mississippi to become the first Black superstar in country music - died Saturday at age 86.
