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 ...

Though white men in cowboy hats might be the first thing many people envision when they think of country music, Black country singers have been making their mark on the genre from the beginning ...

DeFord Bailey is known as a pioneer who helped shape country music, even though he and other Black artists were often ...

But Allen wasn’t the only Black country music singer to make history in a typically white-dominated genre. Kane Brown’s Experiment debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 charts. It is the first ...

It took until 2000 for the Country Music Hall of Fame to induct its first Black artist, Charley Pride, and only two others have joined him. (There are 155 members in total.) ...

A pioneering Black country music artist, Bailey was the first African-American star of the Grand Ole Opry. He was a master harmonica player as well, with incredible rhythm and tone control.