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Who is Jimmy Buffett?

Posted on 11.08.07 6:35AM under Artist, Background, Music

If you visit this blog, you most probably know who Jimmy Buffet is! Really, Jimmy or as he also calls himself – Bubba, JB, Marvin Gardens and Freddy, is a great singer, songwriter, author, businessman and even a film producer. The music genres that he is involved in are countless: country, pop, soft rock, Gulf and western, beach music, rock – all this he can do. It’s amazing.

Jimmy prefers the so-called “island escapism” lifestyle with no one around; he is married and has two daughters, Savannah Jane and Sarah Delaney, and a son, Cameron Marley.

As for Jimmy’s background, he was born on December 25, 1946 in Pascagoula, Mississippi, and grew up along the eastern shore of Mobile Bay. Guitar came into his life during his college years at Auburn University and at the University of Southern Mississippi where he got a bachelor’s degree in history. After graduation day, Buffet was a correspondent for Billboard magazine in Nashville. And it is in Nashville where his musical career began in the late 1960s. He started as a country artist and already, in 1970, he released his debut album – folk rock – Down to Earth.

If we were to speak about some bright facts of Jimmy’s biography, we would certainly remember his and the Corals’ remarkable performance for President Bill Clinton on the White house lawn in August 2000.

In the period of time from 1976, when he became known and well-received to 2007, Jimmy Buffet has made 30 (!) Tours around the world, released a series of albums with the most popular License to Chill and Christmas Island, and partnered in a partial duet with Alan Jackson for the song “It’s Five O’clock Somewhere”, a number one hit on the country charts in 2003.

This blog is created to inform you about Jimmy’s great albums and songs, and interesting facts of his rich-on-events biography.