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Country music legend Charley Pride, who amassed more than 50 top-10 hits between 1967 and 1987 and w

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Country music's first Black superstar's biggest songs included “Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’,” and “Mountain of Love,” and 29 of his 52 top-10 hits rose to No. 1. He won multiple Country Music Awards. And in 1993, he was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry, although he maintained that he’d had an open invitation there since his first performance in 1967. CHARLEY PRIDE RECEIVES WILLIE NELSON LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD AT 2020 CMA AWARDS “I’m so heartbroken that one of my dearest and oldest friends, Charley Pride, has passed away,” fellow country legend Dolly Parton wrote on Twitter Saturday. “It’s even worse to know that he passed away from COVID-19. What a horrible, horrible virus.” His final performance was almost exactly a month ago, on Nov. 11, when he sang during the CMAs and accepted the Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award. Jimmie Allen, who presented the award, once told a radio DJ, “If there was no Charley Pride, there wouldn’t be Darius (Rucker), me, Kane (Brown), Mickey (Guyt ...
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