AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Country singer Ray Price, a pioneer of Texas honky-tonk music who later applied his rich baritone to lushly arranged ballads for pop crossover hits, died on Monday at the age of 87, a family spokesman and a funeral home said.
“Ray Price, legendary country music artist, passed away Monday, December 16, 2013, at his home in Mount Pleasant, Texas,” the Restland Funeral Home, in Dallas, said in a statement.
Price had been battling pancreatic cancer.
(Reporting by Jon Herskovitz; Editing by Edith Honan)