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
I finally came to terms with manic depression and lithium. I've taken lithium regularly for the past few years and have had no further bouts with manic depression.
Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear notion of the money to be made in it.
Chet Atkins... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived.
A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble.
Fans will praise you, scold you, and offer helpful advice. Fans will also defend you.
Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.
It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.
Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.
There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge.
I was sometimes jeered by black soldiers who wanted me to sing something besides country music.
I'm not James Brown. I'm not Sam Cooke. I'm Charley Pride. I'm just me and that's what you got.
Johnny Duncan was one of the first opening acts I hired for my show, and he is the one who initiated me into astrology. I got hooked. It made a lot of sense to me.
No one church has all the answers or the perfect map to the Promised Land, and I prefer to work out my own faith and my own convictions in the seclusion of my own mind.
People pay attention to lyrics, and the race matter was delicate.