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Jimmy Buffett Biography

Jimmy Buffett’s 1977 album, Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes, became not only the singer’s breakthrough hit, but an iconic collection of music that embodied the free-spirit of the Key West, island lifestyle, a world with which Jimmy Buffett has now become synonymous.

Jimmy Buffet’s career began in Tennessee with his first album, Down to Earth, in 1970. Shortly after he moved to Key West to begin the journey as the man and lifestyle with which we now associate him. Jimmy Buffet’s third album, A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean (1973) was followed by Living & Dying in ¾ Time and A1A (1974). Havana Daydreamin’ followed in 1976, before Changes… brought Jimmy Buffett to fame in 1977.

“Margaritaville,” off that album, became Jimmy Buffet’s first Top 10 hit, and he continued to record, tour, and perform throughout the rest of the 1970’s, 1980’s, and 1990’s.

In the new millennium, Jimmy Buffett won a Country Music Award for “It’s Five O’clock Somewhere,” and two years later he established Radio Margaritaville with Sirius radio.

He was nominated again in 2007 for “Hey Good Lookin’, and in 2009, his 28^th studio album, Buffet Hotel, was released.

In addition to his accomplishments in music, Jimmy Buffet has written three number one best sellers. Tales from Margaritaville, Where is Joe Merchant?, and A Pirate Looks at Fifty were all enormous hits, to such a level that Jimmy Buffett joined the ranks of John Steinbeck and Ernest Hemmingway for rankings and sales.

In addition, Jimmy Buffett is an avid supporter of numerous charities, including the Save the Manatee Foundation, which he co-founded in 1981. His “Singing for Change” foundation provides relief for children, families, and those disenfranchised, and environmental causes. Jimmy Buffet’s relief concerts have raised funds for hurricane relief throughout the southeast and Caribbean, and his 2008 performance in Hong Kong was an enormous success for the Foreign Correspondents’ Club Charity Fund. To top off the performance, Jimmy Buffett did not charge for the “groundlings” in attendance, and even covered the cost of their tequila and beer.

In total, eight of Jimmy Buffet’s thirty albums have gone Gold, Platinum, or Multi-Platinum.  He is a beloved figure to all his Parrotheads and continues to write, record, perform, and tour.