Charley Pride performs at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium in 2015. Erika Goldring/Getty Images Charley Pride is the first African-American country singer to ever perform at the Grand Ole Opry. In total, he's sold some 70 million records and recorded dozens of No. 1 hits — and in two weeks, Pride will be presented with a lifetime achievement award at the Grammys. Pretty extraordinary for a man born and raised in Mississippi, the son of a sharecropper. He grew up 275 miles from Na