Country music legend Charley Pride dies at 86

Pride died Saturday in Dallas of complications from Covid-19, the release said.

Born on March 18, 1934, the singer was a Mississippi sharecropper’s son who became the first Black member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.

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CNN’s Ed Lavandera, Eric Fiegel and Dianne Gallagher contributed to this story.