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Charley Pride at Jubilee Auditorium Southern Alberta
| What | Other Event |
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2008-05-17 from 19:30 to 21:30 |
| Where | Jubilee Auditorium Southern Alberta, 1415 14th Avenue NW, Calgary (MAP) |
| Contact Phone | 403-297-8000 |
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Get ready for the live performance by Charley Pride at Jubilee Auditorium Southern Alberta on Saturday.
Jubilee Auditorium Southern Alberta
1415 14th Avenue NW
Calgary
May 17, 2008, Saturday 7:30 PM
Buy Tickets online: CA $59.50 - CA $67.50
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Charley Frank Pride (born March 18, 1938) is a country music artist. During his career, he has had thirty-six number-one hits on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. Born to poor sharecroppers, one of eleven children in Sledge, Mississippi, Pride is a timeless everyman, revered by his musical peers and adored by countless millions of fans around the globe.
Charley Pride has always set his own goals. One of those goals was to become an internationally known artist. He achieved this by performing, in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Fiji as well as the provinces of Canada. Charley still tours these countries today and even takes in a few extra countries, on USO Tours, entertaining our service men and women who are stationed overseas.
Over the past thirty years, Pride has remained one of the Top 20 best-selling country artists of all-time. His incredible legacy includes 36 #1 hit singles, over 70 million albums sold, 31 gold and 4 platinum albums - including one quadruple platinum. On RCA Records, Charley Pride is second in sales only to Elvis Presley.
In June 1994, Pride was honored by the Academy Of Country Music with its prestigious Pioneer Award.
In January 1996, Charley Pride was honored with a Trumpet Award by Turner Broadcasting, marking outstanding African-American Achievement. In between, his "Roll On Mississippi" was considered as the official song of his home state, a stretch of Mississippi highway was named for him, and he headlined a special Christmas performance for President and Mrs. Clinton at the White House.
In July 1999, Charley received his very own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
On October 4, 2000, Charley was honored with the highest country music award, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Charley wept when his name was announced by Hall of Famer, Brenda Lee.