Ray Price was born on the 12th January 1926, in Wood County, Texas USA, and was a singer, guitarist and composer of country music. His wide-ranging baritone voice has been ranked among the best male voices of music in this genre. Ray Price won two Grammy Awards – for the Best Male Vocal Interpretation Country in 1971, and for the Best Country Vocal Collaboration in 2008. Price was active in the entertainment industry from 1948 to 2013, when he passed away.
How much was the net worth of Ray Price? It had been estimated by authoritative sources that the outright size of his wealth was as much as $5 million, as converted to the present day. Music was the main source of Price net worth.
Ray Price Net Worth $5 Million
To begin with, Ray grew up in Dallas, studied to be veterinarian, and fought during World War II in the US Marine Corps in the Pacific theater.
Price resumed studies after the war, but soon concentrated on music, recording two songs under the Bullet Records label in the late 1940s, and afterwards he signing a recording contract with Columbia Records. Price was friends with the country singer Hank Williams, and moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1952. He made his breakthrough in 1956 with the single “Crazy Arms”, which reached 27th position on the Billboard Hot 100 and was in 1st place for twenty weeks on the Billboard Country. In the following years Price recorded more hits, including “My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You” (1957), “City Lights” (1958) and “The Same Old Me” (1959), all of which topped the Billboard Country chart.
In 1968, he left Nashville and he bought a ranch in Perryville, Texas, but continued to record albums for Columbia Records. While he was making traditional country music in the 1950s, he was one of the first artists who focused on the more polished country pop music later on. In 1970, he recorded a hit by the singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson “For the Good Times”, which also earned him a Grammy Award. His popularity took off rapidly in the seventies, and he again garnered success in 1980 with the album “San Antonio Rose”, which he recorded with his former bassist Willie Nelson. He signed a recording contract with Dimension Records and released hits “It Don’t Hurt Me Half as Bad” (1981) and “Diamonds in the Stars” (1983). In the second half of the 1980s and in the 1990s, Price appeared regularly in his own theater in Branson, Missouri. He was inducted in the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville in 1996 and the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001.
From the end of 2012, Ray Price was fighting pancreatic cancer; he opted for chemotherapy treatment rather than undergo surgery. The singer then announced that he was hopeful of resuming his professional activities.
Finally, in the personal life of Price, he was married twice, secondly to Janie in 1970 and with whom he lived until his passing. He fathered his son Clive with his first wife. Price died at the age of 87 from the effects of pancreatic cancer on the 16th December 2013 in Mount Pleasant, Texas, and was buried at Restland Memorial Park in Dallas.
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