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He is a Tejano and Texas country music singer, infusing his music with Latin sounds, and even singing verses of songs in Spanish. In the 1970s and 1980s, he was one of country music's most successful male artists, recording a string of hit songs, such as "You Always Come Back to Hurting Me," "Desperado," "Down on the Rio Grande" and "Foolin'."
DeFord Bailey (December 14, 1899 – July 2, 1982) [4] was an American old-time musician and songwriter considered to be the first African American country music star. He started his career in the 1920s and was one of the first performers to be introduced on Nashville radio station WSM's Grand Ole Opry, [5] and becoming, alongside Uncle Dave Macon, one of the program's most famous performers.
September 23 – Ray Charles, blind African-American pop singer who recorded a series of influential country music albums, starting with Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music (died 2004). September 28 – Tommy Collins, singer and songwriter who helped create the Bakersfield Sound (died 2000). November 20 – Curly Putman, songwriter (died ...
Charley Frank Pride (March 18, 1934 – December 12, 2020) was an American country singer. Beginning his career as a Negro league baseball player in the early-1950s, he later pursued a career in country music, becoming the genre's first major black superstar. [1]
A pioneering Black country music artist, Bailey was the first African-American star of the Grand Ole Opry. ... groundbreaking album “Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music” in 1962 ...
Charley Pride, widely considered the genre’s first Black superstar, was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2000. He was the first Black country singer to receive the honor and is ...
The Country Gentlemen; Court Yard Hounds; Bucky Covington (born 1977) Cowboy Copas (1913–1963) Cowboy Crush; Cowboy Junkies; Cowboy Troy (born 1970) Don Cox (born 1964) The Cox Family; Billy "Crash" Craddock (born 1939) Adam Craig; Floyd Cramer (1933–1997) Crawford/West; Roger Creager; Creedence Clearwater Revival; Melodie Crittenden (born ...
The Inglewood resident was one of very few Black men to have success in country music in the 1970s, and one of two known Black male artists from California who performed at a nationally-charting ...