Rozene pride biography of martin

It's not unusual for initial brushes with fame to wear down a country singer's marriage, especially if the superstar in question married at a young age. There are exceptions though, such as Charley Pride.

The music legend was married to his wife Rozene Pride from Dec. 28, 1956-- a full 10 years before Pride's first single and studio album-- to his Dec. 12, 2020 passing.

The couple met in 1956 while Pride played Negro League baseball for the Memphis Red Sox-- the same team that had Pride's brother Mack Pride Jr.

on its roster the prior season.

Ebby Rozene Cohran's dad had raised her and her sisters Hortense and Pauletta as baseball fans. Even if Rozene followed along to please her dad at first, she was well-versed in the game long before she started dating a professional baseball player.

"Many of the young women who hung around the stadium did so just to meet ballplayers and be part of the social life of the season," Pride wrote in his 1994 autobiography