Charlie Monk, a music industry figure known in Nashville as “the Mayor of Music Row” for his six-decade-plus career in broadcasting, songwriting and publishing, died Monday at age 84. N…
Charlie Monk, a music industry figure known in Nashville as “the Mayor of Music Row” for his six-decade-plus career in broadcasting, songwriting and publishing, died Monday at age 84. No cause of death was given; a statement from his family said he died peacefully at home in Nashville.
“I’ve had a lot of careers — voice work, acting, songwriting, publishing and I’ve managed talent. I’ve told so many lies about my career, I never know which ones I should focus on,” hein 2019, in an interview about his pending Country Radio Hall of Fame induction. He was born Charles Franklin Monk in Geneva, Alabama on Oct. 29, 1938. In his hometown, he swept floors at a local station before being offered a weekend shift as a DJ, and after a stint in the Army, he moved up to high-profile radio and television gigs in Mobile and Tuscaloosa before moving to Nashville in 1968 and landing a daily show out of nearby Murfreesboro.
Among the many honors bestowed upon him, last year the Country Music Association made him the ninth winner of the Joe Talbot Award “for outstanding leadership and contributions to the preservation and advancement of country music’s values and traditions.”
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