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Becoming a trailblazing Country Music superstar was an improbable destiny for Charley Pride, especially considering his humble beginnings as a sharecropper’s son on a cotton farm in Sledge, Mississippi. His unique journey to the top of the music charts includes a tumultuous detour through the world of Negro league, minor league and semi-pro baseball as well as many long years of labor alongside the vulcanic fires of a smelter. But in the end, with boldness, perseverance and undeniable musical talent, he managed to parlay a series of fortuitous encounters with Nashville insiders into an amazing legacy of hit singles and tens of millions in record sales.

Growing up, Charley was exposed primarily to Blues, Gospel and Country music. His father inadvertently fostered Charley’s love of Country music by tuning the family’s Philco radio to Nashville’s WSM-AM in order to catch Grand Ole Opry broadcasts. At 14 years of age, Charley purchased his first guitar—a Silvertone from a Sears Roebuck catalog—and taught himself how to play it by listening to the songs that he heard on that radio.

By the age of 16, Charley began emerging as a talented baseball player. He first played organized games in the Iowa State League and then professional games in the Negro American League as a pitcher and outfielder for the Memphis Red Sox.
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  • wildtony40

    merry christmas...........

    December 2011

  • Ruediger1944

    Charley is my absolutly Classic-Country-Singer. I'm his greatest fan in Germany!!!!

    May 2011

  • debbieannhun

    LOVE LOVE THIS FELLA!!!!!! god bless you conway, I bet they love you in heaven. :)

    April 2011

  • loribeem

    Kiss an angel, San Antone, I'm just me, Crystal Chandeliers, Cotton pickin delta town-all my favorites

    November 2010

  • davidgeorgea

    A great number I love him

    October 2010

  • spike973

    One of the very best. Can't get close enough to get an autograf.

    October 2010

  • lordoftheclyde

    lets get back to the old good music from the 60s and 70s

    October 2010

  • piccolo6497

    my favorit

    August 2010
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Fans throughout the world can now view Charley's Thursday night segment on George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight at the following links: Interview (14 minutes) …

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