Ray Price Not Dead: Country Music Legend Still Alive, Son Says

Ray Price Not Dead: Country Music Legend Still Alive, Son Says
Country Music Hall of Fame member and Grammy award winner Ray “The Cherokee Cowboy” Price celebrates his 86th birthday by performing, in this photo from, Jan. 7, 2011 in Bullard Texas. (AP Photo/Dr. Scott M. Lieberman)
Zachary Stieber
12/15/2013
Updated:
7/18/2015

Ray Price was reported dead at age 87, but it turns out he’s not yet dead.

“I believe I have been deceived by some cruel people and they need to stop this,” said son Cliff Price via Facebook. “I understand my Dads is still alive but barely hanging on.”

Multiple media outlets, including the Tennessean and Country Music Today had reported earlier that Ray price was dead.

Price is a legendary country music singer, one of the leading singers in the 1950s through the 1970s.

Some of his hits included “Talk to Your Heart,” and “City Lights.”

He lives in Mt. Pleasant, Texas and was born on Jan. 12, 1926 in Perryville.

Price has been battling pancreatic cancer.