The five Mississippi artists chosen for the 2018 Mississippi Arts + Entertainment Experience (The MAX) Hall of Fame class were celebrated August 25. The 2018 class members are: Country music artist Charley Pride Born on March 18, 1934, in Sledge, Mississippi, into a sharecropping family, and inspired by Grand Ole Opry broadcasts, Charley Pride picked cotton to purchase his first guitar at age 14 – a $10 Sears & Roebuck model. In 1966, Pride was signed by Chet Atkins to RCA Records, where his gritty, Southern-accented baritone voice made him a superstar.Pride has won three Grammys, three Country Music Association awards, CMA Hall of Fame and Grand Ole Opry inductions and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. His 52 top-10 hits include “Is Anybody Goin’ to San Antone,” “Mississippi Cotton Picking Delta Town,” “Burgers and Fries,” “Roll On Mississippi” and others. Pride will travel to The MAX in Meridian to accept his award. Singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett Born on Christmas Day 1946 in Pascagoula, Mississippi, Jimmy Buffett moved to Nashville in the late 1960s to pursue a country-music career, which was short-lived. In the 1970s, he moved to Key West, Florida, and adopted his trademark beachcomber persona. Under the new guise, he… Read full this story
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