A Jimmy Buffett Fan

Jimmy Buffett – a singer and a charitable person as well

Posted on 02.02.08 10:32AM under Uncategorized

Jimmy Buffett is a well known singer, author, film producer and a business man but he has another other side as a real charitable person, which most of us are unaware. Besides his musical career he owns a chain of restaurants which are running fairly well. He began his musical career in 1960s and he created his own style of music by combining country, folk as well as pop music which had tropical lyrical themes that captured the souls of musical lovers. Till date he has released more than 30 musical albums of which eight are gold albums and nine platinum albums.Jimmy buffett is also known for his charitable activities. He along with the former governor of Florida, Bob Graham founded the “Save the Manatee” club in 1981. This club is world’s leading organization for preserving manatees. A foundation called “singing for change” was started in 1995 to provide grants for charities in the area of environmental causes, children and family causes as well as for disenfranchised groups. in November 2004 he did a hurricane relief concert in Orlando called “ surviving the storm” and collected $3.4 million to provide relief for the  hurricane victims. He is also indirectly involved in many other charity efforts.

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