Amazon MGM Studios has teamed up with Amazon Music and the Academy of Country Music to host I’m Just Me: A Charley Pride Celebration of Inclusion . The event will highlight honorees who are revolutionizing country music ahead of the 59th Academy of Country Music Awards. The event gets its name from legendary country music artist and basketball player Charley Pride who, like many Black musician in the country genre, faced racism throughout his extraordinary career. Despite the odds, he became an international sensation, snagging Grammy awards, the Academy of Country Music Pioneer Award in 1994, Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017 and many others. Pride was also the first Black artist to have a No. 1 country record and his influence continues to shape country music today. Pride, who died in 2020, will be honored at the event by way of the Texas Rangers Baseball Foundation’s Charley Pride Fellowship Program. “Charley Pride was a trailblazer in the true sense of the...
