Charlie pride how old is he

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He was the husband of Ebby Rozene Cohran Pride. His grandchildren are Carlton Kraig Pride, Jr. Pride, and by sister Bessie Chambers.

By then he was selling more records than any other RCA artist since Elvis, and came across on stage as a placid, easygoing man. He later revealed that from onwards he struggled with depression and bipolar disorder.

In his autobiography Pride , written with Jim Henderson he details how, as a child, he was traumatised when two menacing white men kidnapped his little brother — the county sheriff would return the boy, seemingly unharmed — and how, as a teenager, he came to hate the white people who treated him and his community with open contempt. Pride enjoyed a large, loyal following across the UK and Ireland.

In November he played a concert at the Ritz Cinema, Belfast — one of the few international artists to perform in Northern Ireland at the height of the Troubles — so winning him enduring affection.

When I saw Pride in concert in at Indigo at the O2 in London, he performed a winning selection of hits, the warmth of his voice and personality evident throughout. In RCA dropped Pride, as they were now focused on promoting a more youth-oriented style of pop country. This embittered him, as he felt that he and other older artists were being discarded unfairly. Pride continued to tour and record — he received a lifetime achievement Grammy in — his last performance being a duet with the country singer Jimmie Allen on 11 November , at the CMA awards in Nashville.

Charley Pride obituary.