Charlie monk biography

          Warren Edric Monk (born 5 February ) is an Australian former international motorcycle speedway rider.

        1. Warren Edric Monk (born 5 February ) is an Australian former international motorcycle speedway rider.
        2. Born in Geneva, Alabama, Charlie was inducted into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame in , as well as the Country Radio Hall of Fame in In.
        3. October 29, - December 19, Inductee.
        4. 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.
        5. Born Charles Franklin Monk on Oct, 29, in Geneva, Alabama, Monk's career in entertainment began in high school, when he began sweeping.

          6. October 29, - December 19, Inductee....

          Charlie Monk, beloved music industry networker and radio personality, dies at 84

          • More than 50 years ago, Monk co-founded the popular Country Radio Seminar and hosted its New Faces Show more than 40 times
          • Monk grew up in a tiny Alabama town in a house with no plumbing or running water

          Charlie Monk, an upbeat music industry networker and radio personality known as the Mayor of Music Row, died at home Monday afternoon.

          He was 84.

          Monk, who co-founded the popular Country Radio Seminar more than 50 years ago, earned his nickname by glad-handing and encouraging others for decades in country radio and country music publishing. He hosted the career-launching New Faces show at that radio seminar more than 40 times.

          An Alabama native who grew up dirt poor, Monk fought hard to make something of himself − and to be famous, he told The Tennessean three years ago.

          Though he felt he never reached that second goal, Monk launched a career in radio and music publishing in which he helped prop