Charlie Pride - County Singer

Charlie Pride - County Singer

Charlie Pride was born on March 18, 1934 in Sledge, Mississippi, to hard-working sharecroppers. One of eleven children, Pride's mother bought him a guitar when he was a teenager. He taught himself to play and enjoyed music, but his dream was to play professional baseball. He pitched in the Negro Leagues for two years beginning in 1953, and then went on to the minor leagues, eventually...