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As a young boy, Pride listened to whatever music his father could get over the family radio. “They decided to let the record speak for itself.”īorn in Sledge, Miss., Pride grew up with seven brothers, three sister, and two passions in life: music and baseball. “Chet said I was colored, and I think he showed a picture too, and they all looked at each other and unanimously they said, ‘Well we’re still gonna release it, but we ain’t gonna say nothing about no color,'” Pride says. Pride recalls the meeting when fellow country singer and producer Chet Atkins decided to take a chance on the budding musician and play his recordings for the RCA “big wigs in Monterrey.” The American Masters Podcast features new interviews with contemporary artists and cultural figures, along with previously unreleased material from the American Masters series’ 30+ years of award-winning documentary films for PBS. “That’s the way it’s been for these 50-some years.” “Once they heard me, they couldn’t care whether I was pink or green,” Pride says.