A number of people on social media have linked Charley Pride s COVID-19 diagnosis to his appearance at the 2020 CMA Awards, but the late singer s manager does not support that theory.
Kevin Bailey says he doesn t know how Pride caught the coronavirus, but says the Country Music Association took every precaution and that Pride tested negative on two or three occasions after the Nov. 11 show.
Pride a Country Music Hall of Fame artist best known for Kiss an Angel Good Mornin died on Dec. 12 at age 86 after being hospitalized since late November. This COVID thing, it’s impossible to know where it came from, where you got it, Bailey tells the
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Darius Rucker and Charley Pride perform at the 7th Annual Darius And Friends Concert at Wildhorse Saloon on June 6, 2016 in Nashville, Tennessee.
Charley Pride died Dec. 12 from COVID-19.
The first time I saw Charley Pride was on
Hee Haw when I was in the first or second grade. I remember thinking, “This is awesome. This guy looks like me and there’s no one else on that show that looks like me.”
I remember one day I’m leafing through all these records my mom had and I came across this Charley Pride record. I remembered seeing him on
Posted by Liam Kennedy | Dec 17, 2020 |
When most people think of country music, they envisage plaid-wearing, guitar-strumming artists like Johnny Cash or Dolly Parton. They rarely think of Black men like Charley Pride (pictured).
Pride, who died on December 11 at the age of 86, was one of the very few Black superstars in the history of American country music. Acknowledging his contributions to the genre, the Country Music Association Awards presented him with the Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award in November.
It was a symbolic moment for the industry as it celebrated the Black presence in country music. It was also a moment that came in a year in which protests about racial injustice swept across the US, and the American country music industry had been pressed to acknowledge its troubled history of racial difference.
A number of people on social media have linked Charley Pride's COVID-19 diagnosis to his appearance at the CMA Awards, but the singer's manager does not support that.
Dennis Quaid is Working on a Movie About Charley Pride s Life
Hollywood superstar, recording artist and recent
The Charley Pride Story. I tried to do a movie on
Charley Pride years ago, and it just didn t go anywhere at the time, Quaid told Wide Open Country in a recent
Jack Clement, who was a great mentor to Charley. So I got ahold of Charley and asked if I could just come and meet him in Dallas. I went and had Mexican lunch with he and his wife Rozene. This was before the pandemic. We got it up and running again.