
Charley Pride Dies At 86 Of COVID-19 Complications
Charley Pride, Country Music’s First Black Superstar, Dies At 86 Of COVID-19 Complications
By Matthew Leimkuehler, Dave Paulson, The Nashville Tennessean
Charley Pride — a sharecropper’s son who rose from rural Mississippi to become the first Black superstar in country music — died Saturday at …