Ray Price Dead at 87

Country Music Hall of Famer Ray Price has died. The singer succumbed to complications from pancreatic cancer at his home in Mt. Pleasant, Texas on Monday (Dec. 16), four days after issuing a goodbye letter to his fans and entering home hospice.

Price’s 65-year career created a catalog of well-known, award-winning hits, but he’s also remembered as a true gentleman. “Ray Price was a member of country music’s greatest generation, and he radiated poise, dignity and class,” Grand Ole Opry announcer Eddie Stubbs told the Tennessean. Read more here.

Article by: Billy Dukes, Taste of Country

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