Kenny Chesney Biography

Kenny Chesney was born in 1968 in Knoxville, Tennessee. Initially, Kenny’s focus as a teenager was on athletics, playing football and baseball. But after receiving his first guitar shortly after graduation, Chesney fell in love with music and discovered his natural talent for the instrument. He recorded his first demo while still in college, and after graduating in 1990 with an advertising degree, Kenny embarked on a journey to Nashville, where he sought to establish himself as a country music artist.

Chesney’s first gigs in Nashville were as a songwriter, and BMI quickly snatched him up with a writer’s contract. Eventually, he signed his first recording contract, and by 1994, Kenny had released his debut, In My Wildest Dreams. The album was only moderately successful, spawning the singles “The Tin Man” and “Whatever It Takes,” but it paved the way for Chesney’s follow-up in 1995, All I Need To Know. Kenny’s sophomore effort produced the hit singles “Fall in Love” and the “All I Need To Know,” and finally launched his career as a country music star.

Since that time, Kenny Chesney has enjoyed a staggering level of success, releasing a series of hit albums, including: Me and You (1996), Everywhere We Go (1999), No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems (2002), When the Sun Goes Down (2004), The Road and the Radio (2005), Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates (2007), Lucky Old Sun (2008), Hemingway’s Whiskey (2010), and Welcome to the Fishbowl (2012.) The albums spawned hit after hit, including “You Had Me from Hello,” “She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy,” “I Lost It,” “Don’t Happen Twice,” “Young,” “The Good Stuff,” “There Goes my Life,” “Living in Fast Forward,” “Beer in Mexico,” “Summertime,” “Never Wanted Nothing More,” “Better as a Memory,” “The Boys of Fall,” and “Somewhere with You.”

In total so far, Chesney has given audiences more than thirty chart-topping singles and has been recognized with numerous awards, including two Academy of Country Music Awards (for New Male Vocalist of the Year in 1997 and Top Male Vocalist of the Year in 2002), and four Country Music Association Awards for Entertainer of the Year (in 2004 and again for three years running between 2006 and 2008.) Most recently, Kenny Chesney released his latest studio album, Life on a Rock, featuring the song “Pirate Flag,” in 2013.