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Wayne Pride
Wayne Pride
Background information
Born	29 June 1943 (age 81)
Origin	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Genres	country
Occupation	musician
Instrument(s)	vocals, guitar
Years active	1959–present
Website	Official website

Wayne Pride (born 29 June 1943) is an Australian country music and memory lane musician, who started his career in 1959 as a vocalist and guitarist in Sydney, Australia. He has toured with Charley Pride and Buddy Williams, made over 100 television appearances. Pride won the 'Best Entertainer' category at the Western Australian Country Music Awards in 1986, 1989 and 1991. He was the opening act for Don Williams in early 2004. Later in 2004 Pride travelled to the United States to meet Dwight Peters, together they wrote "Smoky Mountain Memories". He returned to the US in 2008 to continue his work with Peters. Pride has performed with Willie Nelson.

Biography

Wayne Pride was born on 29 June 1943 and started his musical career in Sydney in 1959. Since 1964, Pride has idolised US country artist, Roger Miller, he worked with Miller's brothers Duane and Wendell to create a tribute show. He has written a book, Three Little Boys on the brothers. He performed the tribute show, Hero, from November 2009.^[1] He won the 'Best Entertainer' category at the Western Australian Country Music Awards in 1986, 1989 and 1991.^[2]

Discography

Year	Title	Other notes
1989	On the Road
2006	Memory Lane	Re-Release (Digitally Re-mastered)
2006	Back in Time
2006	Dream

TV Appearances^{[note 1]}

TVW 7 (1965–2000)^[3] Includes Perth Telethon, In Perth Tonight, Turpie Tonight
Nine Network Appealathon: 9
GWN: Telehelp
NWS9: Woodie's Teen Time 1961
NWS9: Reg Lindsay's C&W Hour Adelaide Several Appearances
Nine Network: Pad 9 1965

Radio Interviews

Curtin Radio Perth
6EBA Perth
ABC Radio Australia 720 Perth: Earl Reeve Country Music Show

Notes

^ As these appearances are dated, there are few online references.

References

^ "Showing Pride in Miller's life". Community newspaper group. 24 November 2009. Retrieved 3 June 2010.
^ "Past Winners of the WA Country Music Awards". Boyup Brook Country Music Club. Retrieved 3 June 2010.
^ "TVW Reunion News". Western Australian Television History (WA TV History). Retrieved 3 June 2010.